Arizona State University is - to put it delicately - not exactly known for its academic achievements. It has consistently ranked in the top 10 party schools in the country. So it shouldn't surprise us when an English teacher creates a course about the "problem" of whiteness. You can find the problem of whiteness anywhere - if you look hard enough. Or if you look really, really hard. Or if you look so hard you see something that isn't there. Eighteen students signed up for this torture. My guess is most of them are jocks who see the path to an easy "A." All they have to do is make up awful stuff that shows how very bad it is to be white and the prof aces them. Campus Reform: At Arizona State University (ASU), students can now learn about the “problem of whiteness” in America. The public university is offering an English class to its students this semester called “Studies in American Literature/Culture: U.S. Race Theory...(Read Full Post)