A private women’s liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusettsis offering a course called “White Supremacy in the Age of Trump” in the spring when President-elect Trump returns to the White House.
“This course analyzes the history, spread, and current manifestations of the white supremacist movement by examining ideological components, tactics, and strategies, as well as their relationship to mainstream politics,” the said Course description says.
“Students will explore 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 United States. Students develop analytical writing and research skills while engaging with multiple cultural perspectives. The overall goal is to develop the ability to understand the range of possible responses to white supremacy, both its legal and extralegal forms,” it continues.
The four-credit course, offered by the school since 2019, is also available to students at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst through Massachusetts’ Five College Consortium program.
Smith College, a private women’s liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts. (Smith College)
In previous years the curriculum included required readings from “anti-racist” academics, Ta Nehisi Coates and Robin DiAngelo.
In an assignment, students were asked to answer the question: “How did white supremacy ideology help elect Donald Trump, and what did the 2016 election teach us?” and “Why is liberal democracy undermined by white supremacy?” Whites at risk?”
The course has been taught since 2019 by Loretta J. Ross, a visiting professor at Smith College.
Ross, a social justice activist who was once the school’s activist-in-residence, has “dedicated many years to advocating for women’s rights and reproductive justice” and is credited with coining the term “reproductive justice,” Ross said The National Museum of Women’s History.
A social justice activist blamed the backlash from the civil rights movement for President Trump’s 2016 victory. (AP images)
Ross has previously attributed Trump’s 2016 election to backlash from the civil rights movement.
“What we are experiencing 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 supremacy developed a decades-long plan to regain power,” she wrote a 2017 post on their website.
“To implement this plan, they not only brought together people who had opposed the civil rights movement, the die-hard segregationists, but they also felt they had to foment culture wars against LGBT rights, women’s rights, abortion rights, immigrants and workers. “ “Rights, environmental justice. They have just perfected the politics of white resentment against modernity,” the post continues.
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Smith College in Massachusetts offers a course called “White Supremacy in the Age of Trump.” (iStock)
Smith College and Professor Ross did not respond to a request for comment.
When asked what motivated the university to offer the course Campus reformA spokesperson for the school quoted its statement on academic freedom and freedom of expression, stating: “Smith College faculty may freely engage in any topic of intellectual or artistic research and shall not be subject to censorship, discipline or intimidation.”
“Teachers are entitled to full freedom in creative work and research and in disseminating the results through publication, performance and exhibition. In teaching, teachers are also free to determine the relevant content and type of learning for the subject of their specialist knowledge. in accordance with professional standards,” the statement said.
The spokesperson also told Campus Reform that “faculty proposes courses based on their own initiatives and interests, and courses are approved for inclusion in the catalog by the Academic Priorities Committee.”
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