As colleges and universities face more scrutiny and critiques under the guise of “freedom of speech” and diversity terms are co-opted beyond recognition, it is more important than ever that faculty reevaluate their subject positions in the classroom and reconsider teaching practices that need to be reoriented for contemporary students. Based on my essay in Profession (“Academic Freedom in the Classroom: Students and the Trouble with Labels”), this talk offers faculty productive ways to think about whiteness as an institution that move beyond the language of “privilege” and “intersectionality.”

Event registration and more information can be found at: publicslab.gc.cuny.edu/events.