An Iowa college is set to offer classes on “American Whiteness” and “Dogs, Identities, & Culture,” according to its fall 2017 course catalog.
Feminist ethnographer and professor Karla Erickson will teach “American Whiteness,” aimed at examining “whiteness as a specific racial formation with a distinct history, proactive and defensive politics, and institutional and personal investments,” according to the course catalog. The class will analyze the “advantages that accrue to whiteness, the internal diversity of the category, and the continuous challenges to whiteness, both conceptual and material,” as well as capture and reproduce cycles of whiteness.
Erickson declined to release the 2017 course syllabus, but indicated that the spring 2015 syllabus is the same, according to Campus Reform.
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