The Sunday Read: He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?

Published: May 2, 2021, 1 p.m.

b'For years, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, a Dominican-born teacher of classics at Princeton, has spoken openly about the harm caused by the discipline\\u2019s practitioners in the two millenniums since antiquity \\u2014 the classical justifications of slavery, race science, colonialism, Nazism and other 20th-century fascisms.\\n\\nHe believes that classics is so entangled with white supremacy as to be inseparable from it.\\n\\nToday on The Sunday Read, how Dr. Padilla is trying to change the way the subject is taught.'