... they reside. The commentary responds to a historical accounting of the implementation of the Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative at City University of New York. © 2024 The Association for Ethnic Studies 2024 radical futures higher education critical theory whiteness faculty of color...

... citizens were not White and never had been, despite American judges having signed their naturalization petitions in the years prior to Thind . By retroactively holding these five South Asian men accountable to constructions of race that had not been in place at the time of their naturalization, the courts...

... white supremacy. While much work on race and caste highlights the parallels between racism and casteism as descent-based discriminations, I illuminate how they intersect, shaping immigrant struggles to establish belonging and rights in the United States. Caste served as a lynchpin for Thind’s case...

... to the relationships between patriotism and the concepts of whiteness, white privilege, and white supremacy. I suggest that current understandings of patriotism protect and promote the structure of whiteness and white privilege in the United States of America. Lastly, this paper will discuss ways that we can begin...

..., and that race and gender play a primary role in students' perception of classroom material and how she is perceived. Classroom discussions related to historical texts reveal that structures of domination have slanted perception of black and white people in U.S. culture. Finally, a key to open dialogue about...