“There’s a lot of space on this campus for conversations to happen around issues of privilege and specifically around issues of white privilege,” Michele Enos, assistant director of the university’s Social Justice Education office,
told The Daily Northwestern.
A poster advertising the workshop series (shown above) posed rhetorical questions such as: “What is my role in doing anti-racist work?” or “why do I have to feel guilty about being white?” and “how can I talk about race as a white person?”
The Daily Caller reports the events are hosted in collaboration with the university’s Women’s Center.
“Students applying for the program are required to commit to attend all six sessions, seemingly preventing students from abandoning the program if they don’t like it or feel uncomfortable,” the
Caller reports.
The program is a part of Northwestern’s “Social Justice Education” office, which “creates co-curricular educational opportunities in partnership with our student community that foster self-exploration, facilitate conversations across difference and support actions that create social change on campus,” according to its
website.
Similar programming like the “Deconstruction Whiteness” workshop includes “student activism workshops” that end “
racist cis-patriarchy” or programs that “
navigate” real life diversity issues.
