... , Stanford University came up with a program-later known as the " Stanford-style multicultural curriculum" which aimed to familiarize students with traditions, philosophy, literature and history of the west. The program consisted of 15 required books by writers such as Plato, Aristole, Homer,Aquinas,Marx and Freud. By 1987, a group called the Rainbow Coalition argued the fact that the books were all written ... by DWEM's or Dead White European Males. They felt that this type of teaching denied students the knowledge of contributions by people of color,women and other oppressed groups. In...

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