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Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

Professor Offers Course Lamenting 'American Whiteness'

Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

Blaze Podcast Network

News, News Commentary, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Professor Karla Erickson, whose background is in American and Women’s Studies, will teach the four-credit special topics class called “American Whiteness,” which vows to “to facilitate a personal journey towards a better understanding of how whiteness functions in a racist nation.”  If you struggle with whiteness, or if you, like Jeffy, hate white people, perhaps this course is for you.     Follow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRALike Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadioFollow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Jeff Fisher Show

0:08.0

Show Saturday mornings, 9 to noon eastern.

0:11.0

On the Blaze Radio Network.

0:12.0

Good news though coming from our institutions, our institutions of higher learning.

0:20.6

Because, look, it's not enough that we're able to say how bad racism is we need we need safe spaces at our universities. We need to be able to, everyone go to university and it be free.

0:42.0

We need to provide everyone with a higher learning education.

0:47.0

What we need more of is people finding ways to divide us on college campuses.

0:55.0

Right?

0:57.0

Right.

0:58.0

Right.

0:59.0

Just like Carla Ericsson.

1:02.0

Carla Ericsson. Carla is a self-described feminist ethnographer, right? Is that how you say it?

1:12.0

Ethnographer? Ethnographer? Eh whatever, same thing.

1:16.0

Ethnoh, Ethno. Don't look at me like that. With your little, why can't you pronounce the

1:22.4

words right? Don't look at me like that you're

1:24.1

pissing me off now.

1:27.1

Feminist ethnographer.

1:29.7

You know look she studies people, okay? You call it whatever you want to call it. You can call it ethnographer, you can call it ethnographer, you can call it ethnographer. She studies people, or so she claims claims but she's going to provide a course in Iowa at the great

1:50.7

Grinnell College who doesn't want to get a degree from Grinnell College, who doesn't want to get a degree from Grinnell College, and if you have, you know, good for you.

1:57.0

She's going to provide a class on whiteness. Yes, she's going to explore whiteness as a specific racial formation with a distinct history,

2:16.8

provocative and defensive politics and institutional and personal

2:20.8

investments.

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