A college professor will give a talk on the “demilitarization” of whiteness.
Jonathan Miller-Lane, an associate professor of education at Middlebury College in Vermont, will give the hourlong lecture on Tuesday. He will focus on events such as the violent 2017 Charlottesville protests, white dog walker Amy Cooper calling the police on a black bird watcher in New York, and the recent riot at the U.S. Capitol.
“In order to make any progress toward establishing and sustaining a genuinely representative democracy in the United States, Whiteness must be demilitarized so that bodies designated as ‘White’ might become human,” according to a description of the lecture, titled “Middlebury’s Opportunity to Facilitate the Demilitarization of White Bodies.”
Miller-Lane’s biography shows he teaches a variety of courses, including “Education in the USA,” focusing on the role of schools in society; and “Social Justice and Evolutionary Spirituality,” which explores ways to “create intellectually dynamic spaces of regeneration and renewal” while enrolled at a “historically white supremacist institution.”
Middlebury is a private, liberal arts school founded in 1800 “that prepares students to address the world’s most challenging problems, and it does so by engaging them in the life of the mind and soul.”
The school has an acceptance rate of 15%, according to U.S. News & World Report, and its website said tuition for the 2020-2021 academic year is roughly $58,000.
