Mark Federman, principal of East Side Community High School in New York City, is a man on a rather dubious mission. In a burst of âwokeness,â Federman sent white parents of students in grades 6-12 a handout asking them to âreflectâ on their âwhiteness.â It was accompanied by a color-coordinated graph of â8 White Identities,â ranging from a red zone on the left titled âWhite Supremacistâ to a green zone on the far right labeled âWhite Abolitionist.â This screed was authored by Barnor Hesse, a Northwestern University professor of African American studies, political science, and sociology. Hesse also teaches a course called âUnsettling Whiteness,â and the professor makes it clear the content of oneâs character takes a distant back seat to the color of oneâs skin â if it matters at all. âThere is a regime of whiteness, and there are action-oriented white identities,â he insists in a statement above the graph. âPeople who identify with whiteness are one of these. Itâs about time we build an ethnography of whiteness, since white people have been the ones writing about and governing Others.â