Tag: Yale Halloween

Halloween is for Irish people only; for anyone else, it’s racist cultural appropriation

October 31, 2016 | Post

A year ago, lecturer Erika Christakis wrote an email criticizing Yale’s attempt to control students’ Halloween costumes. Christakis suggested that students, as adults, are capable of policing themselves, that the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable costumes is contestable, and that Halloween is holiday meant to allow people to indulge in certain transgressions. Students harassed her […]