‘Problem of Whiteness’ Course at Arizona State Taught by White Professor
From the “you can’t make stuff like this up” department.
Lauren Clark of Campus Reform reports.
White professor teaches ‘problem of whiteness’ course at Arizona State
At Arizona State University (ASU), students can now learn about the “problem of whiteness” in America.
The public university is offering an English class to its students this semester called “Studies in American Literature/Culture: U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness.”
According to the class description on ASU’s website, students will be reading The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, Critical Race Theory, Everyday Language of White Racism, Playing in the Dark, and The Alchemy of Race and Rights.
At time of publication, 18 students were enrolled in the course offered at ASU’s Tempe campus. Students can receive three credits for successfully completing the course.
The class syllabus is not available online.
“I think it shows the significant double standard of higher education institutions,” James Malone, a junior economics major, told Campus Reform. “They would never allow a class talking about the problem of ‘blackness.’ And if they did, there would be an uproar about it. But you can certainly harass people for their apparent whiteness.”
The course, first reported by the Pundit Press, is taught by Lee Bebout, an assistant professor of English at ASU. According to his faculty page, critical race theory is one of his research interests.
Bebout, who is white, has previously taught classes titled “Transborder Chicano Literature,” “Adv Studies Theory/Criticism,” and “American Ethnic Literature,” among others.
White professor teaches 'problem of whiteness' course at Arizona State (Campus Reform)
Comments
No need for a syllabus. The professor need only prop a picture of himself up in front of the class and proclaim, “Yep, there’s the problem.” If students agree, then they get a Pass grade.
It isn’t a “whiteness” problem. It’s a lack of skills, values, morals, self-control, self-motivation, ethics, honor and integrity problem. Those with none substitute success through hard work with envy and entitlement. Those who see the “whiteness” of others as an excuse for their lack of success are selling themselves short and will always have an an excuse not to try to be successful.