Oregon’s Portland Community College to mark ‘Whiteness History Month’Posted in Articles, Campus Life, Media Archive, United States on 2016-01-22 03:30Z by Steven |
Oregon’s Portland Community College to mark ‘Whiteness History Month’
NBC News
2016-01-21
Shamar Walters and Cassandra Vinograd
First comes Black History Month and then … Whiteness History Month?
A community college in Oregon has set aside April to look at “whiteness” — but not to celebrate what it’s described as a social construct which leads to inequality.
Portland Community College’s Diversity Council is behind the event, which it called a “bold adventure” to examine “race and racism through an exploration of the construction of whiteness, its origins and heritage.”
The project is “not a celebratory endeavor” but an “effort to change our campus climate,” the school said on its website…
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