Oxford University’s Research Encyclopedia describes whiteness studies as: “A growing field of scholarship whose aim is to reveal the invisible structures that produce white supremacy and privilege.”
Whereas black studies celebrates black writers and black history, and gay studies brings out gay figures from history and pushes them to the fore, “whiteness studies” is “committed to disrupting racism by problematizing whiteness,” according to Syracuse University professor Barbara Applebaum, who wrote Oxford’s definition. This is to be done “as a corrective.”-- More...
