Say what?-----UChicago offers ‘problem of whiteness’ course

UChicago offers ‘problem of whiteness’ course

• The class is offered through the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department and has attracted media attention.
• “This seminar examines the problem of whiteness through an anthropological lens, drawing from classic and contemporary works of critical race theory,” according to the course description...
• “Critical race theorists have shown that whiteness has long functioned as an ‘unmarked’ racial category, saturating a default surround against which non-white or ‘not quite’ others appear as aberrant,” according to the course description...