{"id":46812,"date":"2016-05-01T00:45:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46812"},"modified":"2016-05-01T00:45:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:45:03","slug":"at-yale-a-right-that-doesnt-outweigh-a-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46812","title":{"rendered":"At Yale, a Right That Doesn\u2019t Outweigh a Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Yale, a Right That Doesn\u2019t Outweigh a Wrong<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2016-04-29<\/p>\n

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore<\/strong><\/a>, Peter V & C Vann Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies
\nYale University, New Haven, Connecticut<\/em><\/p>\n

NEW HAVEN<\/a> \u2014 Yale made a grievous mistake this week when it announced<\/a> that it would keep the name of an avowed white supremacist, John C. Calhoun<\/a>, on a residential college, despite decades of vigorous alumni and student protests. The decision to name residential colleges for Benjamin Franklin<\/a> and Anna Pauline Murray<\/a>, a black civil rights activist, does nothing to redeem this wrong.<\/p>\n

It is not a just compromise to split the difference between Calhoun and Murray; there should be no compromise between such stark contrasts in values. The decision to retain the Calhoun name continues the pain inflicted every day on students who live in a dormitory named for a man distinguished by being one of the country\u2019s most egregious racists.<\/p>\n

To be sure, there\u2019s something noteworthy about the contrast between these two figures who now sit across campus from each other. Although they lived in different centuries, Calhoun in the 19th, and Murray in the 20th, in many ways, she lived in \u2014 and fought against \u2014 the world that he built.<\/p>\n

Calhoun, a Yale graduate, congressman and the seventh vice president of the United States, owned dozens of slaves in Fort Hill, S.C<\/a>. Murray grew up in poverty in Durham, N. C.<\/a>, as the granddaughter of an enslaved woman. Calhoun championed slavery as a \u201cpositive good\u201d; Murray\u2019s great-grandmother was raped by her slave master. Calhoun profited immensely from the labor of the enslaved people on his plantation; Murray was a radical labor activist in Harlem<\/a> during the Great Depression<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Yale, a Right That Doesn\u2019t Outweigh a Wrong The New York Times 2016-04-29 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Peter V & C Vann Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut NEW HAVEN \u2014 Yale made a grievous mistake this week when it announced that it would keep the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2895,459,8,820,6940,20,25],"tags":[4179,23695,23694,23696,23693,2640,4178,2327,7672],"class_list":["post-46812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-life","category-history","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-anna-pauline-murray","tag-glenda-e-gilmore","tag-glenda-elizabeth-gilmore","tag-glenda-gilmore","tag-john-c-calhoun","tag-new-york-times","tag-pauli-murray","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-yale-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46813,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46812\/revisions\/46813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}