I don't buy into the notion that only the majority population can be racist. I also don't think it's a particularly interesting debate topic. I kind of just wish it would go away so that instead of getting hung up on semantics, we can focus on right vs wrong. Call it what you want, racism or not (I call it racism), if you pass harsh judgements on people by their race then you are in the wrong.
This thread is a good example of why most people sort of annoy me when it comes to politics. You have people playing the, "Oh boo hoo" role, which is helpful to absolutely nobody and only serves to piss people off. Or Then you have people who are rightfully criticizing the course title, but seemingly just shaking their fist at the sky and ranting about it instead of looking into the course description and explaining the outrage with any nuance. That is also annoying to me, and makes me uninteresting in participating in the discussion.
The first thing I did was Google the Professor. He's a white guy. I doubt he's a racist against white guys. I see he's written about 5 books on various subjects in the humanities, so this is also not his only focus. So then I read the course description, and the course description is nowhere near as inflammatory as the title suggests. The course seems to be focused on how the historically majority dominating class (white males in this case) in a society react to rapidly changing social structure. That is a very legitimate sociological area of study, and almost an obvious topic for rapidly modernizing world.
Does it need to be called "Angry White Male Studies"? No, I think that's overly sardonic and he should call it something less inflammatory. But is this guy's college course something that outrages me and that I find deeply racist and offensive? No, other than the title of the course I'm pretty indifferent about it and I think everybody else would be too. If a black professor had a class called "Angry Black Man Studies" I would be equally indifferent. There are historical and sociological aspects to these things that really could be explored academically.