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A University of Chicago student who happens to be white objected to an undergraduate anthropology class titled “The Problem of Whiteness.”
A University of Chicago student who happens to be White objected to an undergraduate anthropology class titled “The Problem of Whiteness.”
A University of Chicago student, who happens to be white, objected to an undergraduate anthropology class titled “The Problem of Whiteness.”
In this superheated environment, it becomes more important to counter disinformation with good information, beginning with “whiteness studies,” an area of sociological study and research that probes how race is defined, its origins and how it is constructed by societies more than by nature.
I have learned from experience that mentioning the phrase “white privilege” by itself can be so triggering to white people that they take a defensive posture.