White guys on ASU campus

See those white guys talking together at the MU on campus? No? Look closely. Yes, that’s them. They’re hard to see. Or at least that’s what this book promoted by ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation tells us. They hide in structural racism.

Why is that? Because of “whiteness.” Now, an ASU professor reassured me that “whiteness” is not about skin color. Here is what one reviewer of the book says whiteness is about:

“There are and always have been lots of white guys on college campuses. This timely, important book helps us more deeply understand their racial identities, socialization, and attitudes. Cabrera masterfully complicates whiteness, illuminates white supremacy, and proposes ways to help white college men become less racist.”

That seems like it is about white skin after after. Let’s try another:

“In this era of educational resegregation, Nolan Cabrera’s White Guys on Campus examines how whiteness blocks paths toward truth, justice, and reconciliation.”

That also seems to be about white skin. Or another “One of the main takeaways of White Guys on Campus is that white people need to be facilitating their own racial development.”

Ok, that professor lied to me. “Whiteness” is about white skin and especially “white guys.” But it isn’t true there are tons of them on campus. My own college boasts of having 70% female students and claims these are still the vulnerable population. Is this college working to keep white guys out?

Are “white guys” still welcomed at ASU. Preparing your children for college includes teaching them that they will have professors who are racist toward “white guys.” And teach them that if they expect the university to protect them in accordance with the Civil Rights Act, far from doing that it will promote those who consider “white guys” to be a problem.