Columbia Professor Wins Award for Book on ‘White Paint’ Being Racist
24th September 2026
Among the many woke winners of this year’s prestigious National Book Awards is a black Columbia University professor whose screed attacks “white paint” as racist.
Professor Wendy Walters’ new book, “A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint,” claims that white paint is not the “neutral” architectural design element that it initially appears to be.
Instead, she “interrogates all that we have taken for granted about the substance that colors, or fails to color, the structures and objects that surround us – and what the collective impulse toward white paint can tell us about culture, politics, and individual desire,” the publisher’s description states, in part.