The article made it seem like so much of whiteness studies was on racism, it would like teaching men's studies that focused only on misogyny or women's studies that took care to avoid covering feminist themes.
My concern is picking any racial term and associating it with an almost exclusively negative body of study. I don't disagree with the imporatance of what is being studied, I just question the acuracy and the honesty of what they are labeling it. Again, going only by the information in the article.
The other thought that occurs to me is that I would feel perfectly comfortable making "Human Relatons 101" a mandatory elective. I would not feel the same about an "Introduction to Whiteness" mandatory for everyone that checked white on their application.
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Date: 2003-06-21 12:12 pm (UTC)My concern is picking any racial term and associating it with an almost exclusively negative body of study. I don't disagree with the imporatance of what is being studied, I just question the acuracy and the honesty of what they are labeling it. Again, going only by the information in the article.
The other thought that occurs to me is that I would feel perfectly comfortable making "Human Relatons 101" a mandatory elective. I would not feel the same about an "Introduction to Whiteness" mandatory for everyone that checked white on their application.