One of the premier four-year colleges in America is going to offer a course called "White Identity Politics."  But that's only the beginning, as The College Fix describes: Stanford University is slated to offer a class this fall called "White Identity Politics," during which students will "survey the field of whiteness studies" and discuss the "possibilities of … abolishing whiteness," according to the course description. Citing pundits who say "the 2016 Presidential election marks the rise of white identity politics in the United States," the upper-level anthropology seminar will draw "from the field of whiteness studies and from contemporary writings that push whiteness studies in new directions." Questions to be posed throughout the semester include: "Does white identity politics exist?" and "How is a concept like white identity to be understood in relation to white...(Read Full Post)