Stanford Students To Examine ‘Abolishing Whiteness’
11th August 2017
And then there was Leland Stanford, after whom this once-University was named: He was pretty white.
“We will survey the field of whiteness studies, scholarship on the intersection of race, class, and geography, and writings on whiteness in the United States by contemporary public thinkers, to critically interrogate the terms used to describe whiteness and white identities,” the course description reads.
‘Whiteness studies’?