Students at a public university in New York will have the chance to take a class called the “Abolition of Whiteness” in the fall, all while knocking out a political science requirement.
Jennifer Gaboury, a women and gender studies professor, teaches “Abolition of Whiteness” at Hunter College. “‘POLSC 20474-01: Abolition of Whiteness’” can be taken as either a women and gender studies course, or as a class for the political science department, for which itfulfills a requirement for the ‘4 subfields of political science,’” according to Campus Reform.
The class’s listing on the school’s course catalog provides only a vague description of its content, but a flyer displaying a fall 2016 offering of the course claims it examines “how whiteness – and/or white supremacy and violence – is intertwined with conceptions of gender, race, sexuality, class, body ability, nationality, and age.”
Students obtain 3 credits for taking “Abolition of Whiteness” and 15 out of 25 seats in the course were full when the screenshot was taken, Campus Reform reported Thursday.
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How about abolition of stupidity?
ReplyDeleteUntil you sue them to death or protest them it will never change.
ReplyDeleteMy son had to take this course at UMES for his political science credit. He told me on the quiz, his response to the questions was: "as stated in the Book" showing that he didn't subscribe to the authors comments. He answered the questions correctly, but because the instructor was black and he was white and by his responses to his questions, the best he could get was a C. I told him to be happy with this, since he got A's on all his other courses and to just move on. Be glad you don't have to take that course again. The course dealt with white privilege.
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