ale University has launched a new course entitled
‘Constructions of Whiteness,’ which explores ideas of ‘whiteness.’ The
Ivy League school’s initiative has not been met with universal approval,
however.
The spring 2018 semester class offers students a “discussion of whiteness as a culturally constructed and economic incorporated entity, which touches upon and assigns value to nearly every aspect of American life and culture,” according to its website.
The class is divided into eight topics about “whiteness,” including property, masculinity, femininity, speech, prosperity, spaces and imagination, according to College Fix, which claims to have obtained the syllabus.
Required reading includes Michael Kimmel’s ‘Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era,’ Richard Dyer’s ‘White: Essays on Race and Culture,’ and Richard Delgado and Jean Stefanic’s ‘Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror.’
Other readings include Hazel Carby’s ‘White Woman, Listen!’ Juliana Spahr’s ‘My White Feminism,’ and Rankine’s own work, ‘The White Card.’