{"id":359297,"date":"2018-05-02T02:01:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T01:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/colorado-students-earn-credit-for-unmasking-whiteness\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T02:01:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T01:01:34","slug":"colorado-students-earn-credit-for-unmasking-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/colorado-students-earn-credit-for-unmasking-whiteness\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Students Earn Credit for \u2018Unmasking Whiteness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Toni_Airaksinen\">Toni Airaksinen<\/a>, Campus Reform, 1 May 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The University of Colorado-Colorado Springs is awarding three academic credits exclusively to white students who attend a conference dedicated to \u201cwhite privilege.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.awarela.org\/unmasking-whiteness-institute\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unmasking Whiteness<\/a>\u201d conference will convene students and educators from across the United States this July in North Hollywood, California to explore \u201chow being white shapes our lives\u201d and \u201cdiscover our role as white people in struggle for social justice.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Only open to self-identifying white people, the four-day conference is co-organized by Shelly Tochluk, a professor at Mount Saint Mary\u2019s University (MSMU) in Los Angeles, and is offered by the nonprofit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.awarela.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">AWARE-LA<\/a>\u00a0(Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The recently-released\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/581e9e06ff7c509a5ca2fe32\/t\/5a07499f53450af07c8bf824\/1510427039562\/Institute_Info_SheetMASK+-18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">conference brochure<\/a>\u00a0explains that attendees will learn about topics including \u201cwhite privilege,\u201d \u201cguilt and shame,\u201d \u201cwhat it means to be white in today\u2019s society,\u201d and the \u201ceconomic benefits\u201d of whiteness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cU.S. society does not usually ask white people to explore how race affects our lives,\u201d the brochure states. \u201cWhen we honestly grapple with this question we become able to recognize the various ways we receive social and economic benefits based on being seen as part of the white group.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The brochure also notes that while deconstructing whiteness can release feelings of \u201cguilt and shame,\u201d working through these emotions is crucial because they \u201coften lead to paralysis and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/colorado-students-earn-credit-for-unmasking-whiteness\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toni Airaksinen, Campus Reform, 1 May 2018 The University of Colorado-Colorado Springs is awarding three academic credits exclusively to white students who attend a conference dedicated to \u201cwhite privilege.\u201d\u00a0 The \u201cUnmasking Whiteness\u201d conference will convene students and educators from across the United States this July in North Hollywood, California to explore \u201chow being white shapes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}