A teacher discusses dairy products and white power.
This one does n’t appear to be a hoax.
A new study job,” Milk it: colonialism, history and common relationship with dairy”, comes out of the University of Oxford’s History of Science Museum.
Leading the project are JC Niala, mind scholar of the gallery, and Johanna Zetterström Sharp, associate professor of anthropology at the University College London, according to an statement on the museum’s Instagram page.
According to the announcement, their aim is to “examine the milk-related collections of the History of Science Museum to grasp academic knowledge manufacturing and the impact of imperial legacies on modern issues.”
” Through milk journals, historical research, and participation podcasting, it will investigate historic relationship with milk, building sites with consumers and producers in Britain and Kenya”, it states.
Niala and Sharp” will question both the imagined and real aspects of milk”, including the “political nature of this everyday substance”, according to the announcement.
The British Arts and Humanities Research Council, according to The Telegraph, is the government’s new research project.
But the topic is not new to either scholar.
In 2022, Sharp took part in a panel discussion about” Milk and Whiteness” hosted by the Wellcome Collection in London. The event “explor]ed ] milk’s associations with purity and whiteness and the racialised politics of diet and nutrition”, according to the collection website.
The Telegraph reports more:
The professor cited a” Northern European obsession with milk” in the panel discussion, which has led to the idea that milk should be produced and distributed on a large scale.
Such an assumption, she argued, “may be understood as a white supremacist one”.
She continued,” Northern European needs and the science the technology developed to address them are the needs that pertain and are most important for global majority populations.”
Additionally, Niala lists “milk” as a key subject of her research work in her biography on the museum website.
According to the museum, the museum’s “ultimate goal” is to “learn from the histories and global forces shaping milk today to envision more sustainable futures.”
Milk, coffee, and racism were the subject of a student’s hoax research essay in 2021.
The Swedish university student wrote about “how the marketing of the coffee has been characterized by highlighting “black and exotic elements” of the drink, as The College Fix reported at the time. When it comes to milk, it has instead been’ the local and white’ that has been emphasized”.
Arvid Haag claimed that he wrote the paper as a joke for a class on critical race theory and that he was surprised when people took it seriously.
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