An Oregon college will spend one month challenging the alleged “master narrative” of “whiteness” in all its forms.
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Officials at Portland Community College went out of their way to stress that April’s “Whiteness History Month: Context, Consequences, and Change” is “not a celebratory endeavor.”
“Whiteness has a long history in European imperialism and epistemologies. It does not simply refer to skin color but an ideology based on beliefs, values, behaviors, habits and attitudes, which result in the unequal distribution of power and privilege based on skin color,” PCC’s website reads. “Whiteness represents a position of power where the power holder defines social categories and reality – the master narrator.”
The term “whiteness” is given a catch-all definition as “a broad social construction that embraces white culture, history, ideology, racialization, expressions and economic experiences, epistemology, and emotions and behaviors, and nonetheless reaps material, political, economic, and structural benefits for those socially deemed white.”
The month-long event is still being organized by PCC’s Cascade Campus Diversity Council. It will ultimately cover “legal, cultural, economic, social, environmental, educational, and/or intrapersonal consequences of whiteness.”
The education watchdog Campus Reform did not receive a response from PCC on Monday after sending out a request for comment.
“Yet another nail in the coffin of modern-human relations in the U.S.,” said Pete Sheppard on the nonprofit organization’s website Monday.
“This ‘course’ seems to be a part of the Hate-America-First degree,” added user George Burns.
