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A women’s liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts, is offering a spring course titled “White Supremacy in the Age of Trump” as President-elect Trump prepares to return to office.
“This course analyzes the history, prevalence and current manifestations of the white supremacist movement by examining ideological components, tactics and strategies, and its relationship to mainstream politics,” reads the course description. “Students research and discuss the relationship between white supremacy and white privilege, and explore how to build a human rights movement to counter the white supremacist movement in the U.S. Students develop analytical writing and research skills while engaging in multiple cultural perspectives. The overall goal is to develop the capacity to understand the range of possible responses to white supremacy, both its legal and extralegal forms.”
The four-credit course, available since 2019 through Massachusetts’ Five College Consortium, includes readings from “antiracist” authors like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Robin DiAngelo. Past assignments featured politically slanted questions, including “How did the ideology of white supremacy help elect Donald Trump and what did the 2016 election teach us?” and “Why is liberal democracy jeopardized by white supremacy?”
Taught since 2019 by social justice activist Loretta J. Ross, a visiting professor at Smith College, the course reflects her racially-charged advocacy for women’s rights and reproductive justice. Credited with coining “reproductive justice,” Ross has attributed Trump’s 2016 election to backlash against the civil rights movement.
“What we are witnessing is what happened after the success of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The people who felt they had lost control of this democracy and their determination to protect white privilege and white supremacy developed a multi-decade plan to regain power,” she wrote in a 2017 post on her website. “To implement this plan, they pulled together not only people who had been resistant to the civil rights movement, the diehard segregationists, but they also thought that they needed to foment culture wars against LGBT rights, women’s rights, abortion rights, immigrants, workers’ rights, environmental justice. They just perfected the politics of white grievance against modernity.”
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