According to Northwestern University's Department of Black Studies, the course aims to make "the historical, political, and cultural formation of whiteness in Western modernity visible and narratable for commentary and analysis."
Stone Washington, a Ph.D. candidate at George Washington University and a member of the Project 21 Black Leadership Network, describes it as "myopic" and "narrow-minded."
"They start off with a false premise, basically promoting that white supremacy is systemic, and it undermines institutional fairness, and it is pervasive; it's across all of our academic institutions," he details. "They just assume that white people are in dominant positions, and everybody else just doesn't have a chance to be equally successful."
"I just think that it's really intellectually dishonest," Washington tells AFN.
Still, he hopes a lot of people, especially critical thinkers, will take the class
"Why aren't other minority viewpoints considered in this class?" he encourages students to ask. "Is this just like a demonization of… white people and a misunderstanding of white privilege and white supremacy?"
He thinks this course is a direct product of the critical race theory teachings that have invaded many academic institutions and says it undermines the institutional prestige of Northwestern.
"They're better than this," he submits.
