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Campus Reform<\/strong><\/a>
January 12, 2018<\/p>\n

An upcoming course at the Teachers College, Columbia University is slated to explore \u201cTrumpism\u201d by examining \u201cthe connections between wealth, violence, and politics.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an email obtained by Campus Reform<\/em>, professor Erika Kitzmiller explained that the course, titled \u201cEducation in the Age of Trump,\u201d introduces \u201cthe past and present conditions that allowed Trump to seize electoral control of a major American political party and acknowledges the intersectional nature of power and politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

The description asserts that the program is \u201cconcerned less with Trump as a man than with \u2018Trumpism,\u2019\u201d which Kitzmiller said is defined by \u201cpolitical polarization, escalating inequality, and persistent racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and homophobia, as a product of history.\u201d<\/p>\n

The email elaborated that students \u201cwill consider how \u2018Trumpism\u2019 affects their roles as educators,\u201d while developing a \u201cdeep appreciation and understanding of the historical and sociological antecedents that have contributed to \u2018Trumpism\u2019 and explore ways to challenge its shortcomings in their classrooms, schools, and communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The syllabus for an earlier version of the same course<\/a> that Kitzmiller taught last year notes that the program is based on \u201cTrump Syllabus 2.0<\/a>,\u201d a 2016 work by historians N.D.B. Connolly and Keisha N. Blain that seeks to study \u201cTrump\u2019s rise as a product of the American lineage of racism, sexism, nativism, and imperialism.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the previous syllabus, Kitzmiller explained that the course \u201coffers an introduction to the deep currents of American political culture that produced what many simply call \u2018Trumpism\u2019: personal and political gain marred by intolerance, derived from wealth, and rooted in the history of segregation, sexism, and exploitation.\u201d<\/p>\n