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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So....if the friend were majoring in History (of dead white people) or English (written by dead white people) or Anthropology (white people studying living non-white people) or Archaeology (white people digging up the stuff of dead non-white people) or Philosophy (written by dead white people) or Classics (works by dead white Greeks and Romans) would that be acceptable to you and your conservative strawman looking to hire someone?

Ethnic Studies can encompass all those fields and more. It's an interdisciplinary major. It's disturbing that you would assume that Ethnic Studies is somehow a major less worthy of respect than other liberal arts majors such as history, English, philosophy, classics, anthropology, or archaeology. Classes satisfying the major requirement will presumably require the same sorts of learning, studying, and demonstrating mastery of the materials than a comparable class taught in the traditional mold so prevalent in higher education until only a few decades ago -- that only things done by white men are worthy of study.[/quote]

Not the OP - History is fine if Law School is the goal, the rest of the majors to me are comparable to Ethnic studies and I wouldn't encourage any kid to major in them.[/quote]

We know Ethics is not good if Law School is the goal. [/quote]

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