If it's true that the protesters are wrong that they are only reading dead white dudes, and are instead of reading also Confucius and Lao Tzu, etc.:
Then I would think a few things:
-I would ask the protesters who think this if they have personally looked at every classes syllabus and or done a systematic analysis of all the syllabi/curricula in all the academic departments at the whole school?
-More fundamentally, I avoid remark that if they are reading authors who are not white men and not recognizing that, including on issues of poverty, like maybe William Julius Wilson and so not realizing that he's black--that they're reading a black scholar on poverty arguing against the neoclassical/individualist view--
maybe it's because he's writing on poverty, and in particular black poverty, and not on blackness or being black or from the perspective of being black (and or) such that it's only accessible to people with the same experience.
That would demonstrate that they only want to diversity of identity/participants and not of content.
It also shows that she not only wants the inclusion of/favor city of certain types of people, like certain racial and ethnic minority members, but ones who speak in a certain way and to scholarship and research and production is of a certain sore and on a certain topic and in a certain style.
Also, if they've been reading them the whole time without being aware of it, then it proves that the identity characteristics of the writers/scholars is a relevant/of peoples ideas are irrelevant.
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http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/too-many-dead-white-dudes-seattle-u-students-protest-programs-curriculum/
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