A private women’s liberal arts college in Northampton, MAis offering a course called “White Supremacy in the Age of Trump” in the spring as President-elect Trump returns to the White House.
“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,” course description says.
“Students 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 U.S. Students develop analytical writing and research skills while engaging with 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 report continues.
The four-credit course, which has been offered by the college 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)
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In previous years the course syllabus included required reading from ‘anti-racist’ academics, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Robin DiAngelo.
One paper assignment asked students to answer the question, “How did the ideology of white supremacy help elect Donald Trump and what did the 2016 election teach us?” and “Why is liberal democracy endangered by white supremacy?”
The course has been taught since 2019 by Loretta J. Ross, visiting professor at Smith College.
Ross, a social justice activist who was once the school’s “Activist-in-Residence,” has “devoted many years to advocating for women’s rights and reproductive justice” and is credited with helping to coin the term “reproductive justice” , said the National Women’s History Museum.
A social justice activist blamed the backlash on the civil rights movement for President Trump’s 2016 victory. (AP images)
Ross has previously attributed Trump’s 2016 election to opposition to 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-year plan to regain power,” she wrote a 2017 post on her website.
“To implement this plan, they not only brought together people who had opposed the civil rights movement, the diehard segregationists, but they also thought they had to stoke culture wars against LGBT rights, women’s rights, abortion rights, immigrants, workers. ‘ rights, environmental justice. They just perfected the politics of white resentment of modernity,” the post continued.
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Smith College in Massachusetts offers a course titled “White Supremacy in the Age of Trump.” (iStock)
Smith College and Professor Ross did not respond to a request for comment.
When asked what prompted the college to offer the course Campus reforma spokesperson for the school cited its Statement on Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression, which stated that “Smith College faculty may freely pursue any subject of intellectual or artistic inquiry and shall not be subject to censorship, discipline or intimidation.”
“Faculty is entitled to complete freedom in creative work and research, and in sharing the results through publication, performance and exhibition. In the classroom, faculty also have the freedom to determine the relevant content and mode of learning for the subject of their expertise, in accordance with professional standards,” the statement said.
The spokesperson also told Campus Reform that “faculty propose courses based on their own initiatives and interests, and courses have been approved by the Committee on Academic Priorities for addition to the catalog.”
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