College offering ‘White Supremacy in the Age of Trump’ course

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, prevalence, and current manifestations of the white supremacy movement by examining its ideological components, tactics, and strategies, and its relationship to mainstream politics,” the course description says.

“Students explore and debate 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 US. 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 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.

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In previous years, the course syllabus included required reading by “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 threatened by white supremacy?”

course taught by Loretta J. Ross, Visiting Associate Professor at Smith College since 2019.

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,” according to the National Museum of Women’s History.

Ross previously blamed Trump’s 2016 election on opposition to the civil rights movement.

“What we are witnessing is what happened after the success of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. People who felt they had lost control of this democracy and their determination to protect white privilege and white supremacy developed a multi-decade plan regain power,” she wrote a 2017 post on her website.

“To carry out this plan, they brought together not only people who resisted the civil rights movement, staunch segregationists, but also thought they needed to instigate culture wars against LGBT rights, women’s rights, abortion rights, immigrants, workers’ rights, environmental justice, have just perfected the politics of white anger at modernity,” the post continued.

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Smith College and Professor Ross did not respond to a request for comment.

When asked what prompted the college to offer the course by Campus reforma school spokesman cited its Statement of Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression, stating that “Smith College faculty are free to pursue any subject of intellectual or artistic inquiry and will not be subject to censorship, discipline, or intimidation.”

“Teaching staff have the right to full freedom in creative work and research, and in sharing results through publication, performance and presentation. In teaching, teaching staff are similarly free to determine the relevant content and learning method for the subject of their expertise, in accordance with professional standards,” the press release states.

A spokesperson also told Campus Reform that “faculty proposes courses based on its own initiatives and interests, and courses are approved for addition to the catalog by the Committee on Academic Priorities.”

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