[summer]

This is the first I've heard of these classes. Havign just read yesterday that black actor Morgan Freeman and other blacks want to retire "black history month" because they believe black history should be taught in American history, year round, I was rather surprised to now find "white" classes in the news.

[summer]

Also, this may be off-topic here since it's not about academia -- but my favorite "lesson" about how a non-white could view a white person came from Eddie Murphy, in that brilliant short film he made on Saturday Night Live years ago, when he disguised himself as a white person, and discovered as soon as the last back person got off a city bus, a big party started, and down at the bank, money was just thrown at him since he's now white.

LOL...I thought he made some great points, in a great way. Because most white people know there is no such party on the bus when the last black person leave, and even white people get turned down for loans. But, it was his comic genius to show us that view of what goes on from a non-white perspective.

[Bon mots]

Get whitey!
The war on white people goes on.

Why are we promoting a culture that continually spouts the lie that all whites are racists and evil and all blacks are our downtrodden victims?

[only1percent]

Always ask "cui bono?" It usually explains everything.

By the mid-1990s, straight white male senior faculty in humanities and social sciences were still happy teaching (mostly) traditional subdisciplines, but they had basically pulled the ladder up behind them, reserving most new hire and promotions for minority and women candidates, or for "subaltern" subdisciplines (women's studies, queer studies, ethnic studies, etc.) which were practically limited to members of the allegedly oppressed group in question.

"White Studies" was a rather clever, if utterly cynical, invention that would give straight white male graduate students and junior faculty a way to organize, establish their anti-capitalist / anti-traditionalist credentials, and (most importantly) give senior faculty to hire and promote them.

[Elyse]

I think you would find that blacks teachers favor black children because they identify more with them. I have a problem with concentrating on racism just among whites. I think it makes whites defensive and it implies that they are the only ones capable of racism.

I think they need one class where they look at racism honestly and acknowledge that ever race has the same level of racism within it's ranks. I think you do a whole lot more to bring people of different races together when you acknowledge that we are more alike than we are different and we all have the same problems dealing with the differences.

[hubbubhubbub]

"The Power of Whiteness” at Providence College to “White Racism” at the University of Connecticut. They are taught in departments like sociology, American studies, ethnic studies and women’s studies."

Rigorous academics no doubt. Just what type of career is an ethnic studies or women's studies major qualified for?

[Galveston Grl]

The only "white" studies liberals will allow is inferiority and self hatred. They have been doing this since the beginning of the 90's in a formal way. Hate inferior whitey is also central to all the minority race studies of multiculturalism. They also hate Jews.

The Left hates the white founders and the Nation and Judeo- Christian culture they launched. They will see it and white Christians (probably Jews as well) destroyed by any means necessary.