WHITE PRIVILEGE AT CCNY’S SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Anyone familiar with the literature on race relations in the USA knows what "white privilege" means. I have written on this blog about the white female professor, a non tenured colleague who, shamelessly, sabotaged a conference I organized on language education and indigenous peoples of the Americas, and have discussed the denial of tenure to an excellent, well prepared Puerto Rican female professor with an impressive record on community activism, who was setting-up institutions from a very early age in her life, while at the same time, the College granted tenure to a white female professor who “no le llegaba a los tobillos de la puertorriqueña". There are other instances where white privilege was quite the leading factor in making institutional decisions and driving dynamics in classroom situations. All of this took place in an institution that was not in Middle America, but in Harlem. One hopes, CCNY’s  School of Education is willing to face these disgraceful events and many others covered in this blog -I am convinced that there are many more instances of explicit and implicit racism, ethnophobia, neo-colonial and homophobic activities at the School of Education-, more so now, when the neo-fascists are taking over governing the country and some of its institutions, dismantling the policies that address issues on the topics previously listed.