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Dan-el Padilla Peralta came to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic at age 4 and grew up extremely poor; it was his childhood fascination with ancient Greece and Rome, combined with his academic talents, that got him school scholarships and pulled him out of poverty and into a professorship at Princeton. Today he argues that his discipline, as it developed in the U.S. and Europe from the 18th century onward, is completely bound up with white supremacy and should be either restructured completely or abandoned entirely. – The New York Times Magazine

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