The Oregon community college wants “to challenge the master narrative of race and racism through an exploration of the social construction of whiteness.”
A community college in Portland, Oregon, has caused controversy online because of its plans to host a "Whiteness History Month" to help students explore the "construction of whiteness."
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Portland Community College will hold the educational project in April, according to its website, "to inspire innovative and practical solutions to community issues and social problems that stem from racism."
Thomas Le Ngo / Via Flickr: thomasngo
The website quotes the University of Calgary's CARED Collective in attempting to define "whiteness":
Whiteness 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. Whiteness represents a position of power where the power holder defines social categories and reality—the master narrator. Whiteness originates racism.
SOURCE: BuzzFeed
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