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In the early days of the run-up to the 2016 election, I was just beginning to prepare a class on whiteness to teach at Yale University, where I had been newly hired.... I wanted my students to gain an awareness of a growing body of work by sociologists, theorists, historians and literary scholars in a field known as “whiteness studies”.... Given the seeming novelty of such white writing and the urgency of understanding white support for Ronald Reagan, ‘critical whiteness studies’ gained media attention and a small foothold in universities.” This area of study aimed to make visible a history...

A Brooklyn College professor says Ebonics is superior to the tongue of White Devils --Assistant Professor of Adolescence Education at Brooklyn College --Teaches that rap music is an effective tool for teaching English literacy to schoolchildren, and that proper English is language of white "oppressors" --Required students to view Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 Priya Parmar is an Assistant Professor of Adolescence Education at Brooklyn College's School of Education in New York, where she teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses to aspiring teachers. Of special interest to Parmar, whose doctoral dissertation is titled "KRS-One Going Against the Grain: A Critical Study...

Jeff Hitchcock is co-founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of White Culture. A super-patriot wrapped in the American flag, perhaps? Naw. Not Jeff. He doesn't like white people -- in fact, he despises them, and there's not much he likes about the US-of-A either -- except for 9/11, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the San Francisco earthquakes. You see -- Jeff is a hater. Strom Thurmond, at his worst, couldn't hold a candle to him. George Wallace hated African-Americans, so they said, but he repented in the end, and was saved. David Duke, at...

Jeff Hitchcock is co-founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of White Culture. A super-patriot wrapped in the American flag, perhaps? Naw. Not Jeff. He doesn't like white people -- in fact, he despises them, and there's not much he likes about the US-of-A either -- except for 9/11, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the San Francisco earthquakes. You see -- Jeff is a hater. Strom Thurmond, at his worst, couldn't hold a candle to him......

["It's a great advance to start looking at whiteness as a group." — Professor Howard Winant on "whiteness studies."] Believe it or not, but at universities across America, there are liberal professors trying to talk me, Michael Graham, into becoming a racist — and they think you should be one, too. Don't laugh. OK, go ahead and laugh, but some very earnest people are sincere in their belief that white Americans need to learn to love our inner honkeys. Last week's Washington Post fronted a feature on "whiteness studies," a new movement on college campuses teaching white people to become...

“WHITNESS STUDIES,” which began as a small fringe of the academic world only eight years ago, has since blossomed into the latest academic fad. The Washington Post reports that “at least 30 institutions—from Princeton University to the University of California at Los Angeles—teach courses” in the subject. WS has its own think-tank (the Center for the Study of White American Culture), its own journal (Race Traitor, “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity”), periodic national conferences, and a veritable library of books and tracts. The essence of the discipline can be summed up in two words: Hating Whitey. http://frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8565

Whiteness StudiesBy Chris WeinkopfFrontPageMagazine.com | June 25, 2003 “WHITNESS STUDIES,” which began as a small fringe of the academic world only eight years ago, has since blossomed into the latest academic fad. The Washington Post reports that “at least 30 institutions—from Princeton University to the University of California at Los Angeles—teach courses” in the subject. WS has its own think-tank (the Center for the Study of White American Culture), its own journal (Race Traitor, “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity”), periodic national conferences, and a veritable library of books and tracts. The essence of the discipline can be summed...

Whiteness StudiesBy Chris WeinkopfFrontPageMagazine.com | June 25, 2003 “WHITNESS STUDIES,” which began as a small fringe of the academic world only eight years ago, has since blossomed into the latest academic fad. The Washington Post reports that “at least 30 institutions—from Princeton University to the University of California at Los Angeles—teach courses” in the subject. WS has its own think-tank (the Center for the Study of White American Culture), its own journal (Race Traitor, “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity”), periodic national conferences, and a veritable library of books and tracts. The essence of the discipline can be...

Monday we received guidance from the Supreme Court that discrimination against Caucasian-Americans is a perfectly acceptable practice that will continue perhaps indefinitely. You´d think that in this new century there would no longer be a prurient government interest in subjugating Americans based on race. Meanwhile, we read in the Washington Post about courses in “Whiteness Studies” which exist at thirty of our universities. These courses are an attempt to denigrate white Americans and depict us as being the beneficiaries of a privilege which never in fact existed. The curriculum for whiteness studies alludes to a fictional historical conspiracy to keeps...

Hue and Cry on 'Whiteness Studies' An Academic Field's Take on Race Stirs Interest and Anger By Darryl Fears Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 20, 2003; Page A01 AMHERST, Mass. -- Naomi Cairns was among the leaders in the privilege walk, and she wasn't happy about it. The exercise, which recently involved Cairns and her classmates in a course at the University of Massachusetts, had two simple rules: When the moderator read a statement that applied to you, you stepped forward; if it didn't, you stepped back. After the moderator asked if you were certain you could get a...

<p>AMHERST, Mass. — Naomi Cairns was among the leaders in the privilege walk, and she wasn’t happy about it. The exercise, which recently involved Cairns and her classmates in a course at the University of Massachusetts, had two simple rules: When the moderator read a statement that applied to you, you stepped forward; if it didn’t, you stepped back. After the moderator asked if you were certain you could get a bank loan whenever you wanted, Cairns thought, “Oh my God, here we go again,” and took yet another step forward.</p>

...The privilege walk [see the article] was part of a course in whiteness studies, a controversial and relatively new academic field that seeks to change how white people think about race. The field is based on a left-leaning interpretation of history by scholars who say the concept of race was created by a rich white European and American elite, and has been used to deny property, power and status to nonwhite groups for two centuries. Advocates of whiteness studies -- most of whom are white liberals who hope to dismantle notions of race -- believe that white Americans are so...

AMHERST, Mass. — Naomi Cairns was among the leaders in the privilege walk, and she wasn’t happy about it. The exercise, which recently involved Cairns and her classmates in a course at the University of Massachusetts, had two simple rules: When the moderator read a statement that applied to you, you stepped forward; if it didn’t, you stepped back. After the moderator asked if you were certain you could get a bank loan whenever you wanted, Cairns thought, “Oh my God, here we go again,” and took yet another step forward. “YOU LOOKED BEHIND YOU and became really uncomfortable,” said...

Oh good. In the Washington Post,* the trade journal of the coming vacuum, I discover a story on "Whiteness Studies." These, at what used to be the University of Massachusetts, are yet more un-courses that grow like mold on the wreckage of American education. They endeavor to make white students ashamed of being white. How useful. An implement wielded to this end, saith the Post, is the Privilege Walk. In this the students or, more accurately, indoctrinees, are asked to take a step forward if they can answer "yes" to such questions as "Can you get a bank loan whenever...