August 29, 2017 By Jonathan Turley

University of Iowa Assistant Professor Jodi Linley is under fire for an article in a “peer-reviewed academic journal” in which she pledged to expose her students to “their own white ignorance.” She says that she used her “identities as a queer, able-bodied, cisgender woman” to offer a “teaching paradigm” that strips away white privilege. She segregates by race and works toward “interrupting oppression” that occurs in classroom settings.

As a white professor, Linley insists that if she did not actively try to expose the white privilege” of her class and “deconstruct whiteness,” she would be perpetuating white dominance. She adds: “As a white assistant professor of mostly white graduate students who will become higher education leaders, I work to dismantle whiteness in my curriculum, assignments and pedagogy.”

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https://jonathanturley.org/2017/08/29/io...hite-ignorance/
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"cisgender" that was a new one for me. It means I identify as the sex I was born with. these folks are whack-jobs!. I'd like to see how she dismantles someone's "whiteness." Can the same principles be used to dismantle someone of color?someone's blackness or brown-ness? Who told her that we need dismantling anyway? every other race is trying to celebrate their race, black pride, asian pride, etc., but white pride? that's verboten!