White Men on Campus

https://youtu.be/mWMtSbw4MVs Episode Description Dr. Keith Edwards discusses white men on campus with Drs. Rachel Wagner, Jörg Vianden, & Nolan Cabrera. Join the conversation as these scholars take a critical approach discussing white men on campus, privilege, race and racism, gender and sexism, social justice, resistance, and learning. Episode Transcript Keith Edwards:Hello, and welcome to Student Affairs NOW. I'm your host, Keith Edwards. Today, we are talking about white men on campus. I'm thrilled to be joined by three scholars, deep thinkers and fun people to discuss privilege, race and racism, gender and sexism, social justice, resistance and learning. Student Affair Now is the premier podcast and learning community for thousands of us who work in alongside or adjacent to the field of higher education and student affairs. We hope you'll find these conversations make a contribution to the field and a restorative to the profession release new episodes every week on Wednesdays. Find us at StudentAffairsNow.com or on Twitter. As I mentioned, I'm your host, Keith Edwards. My pronouns are he, him, his. I'm a speaker, consultant, and coach. You can find out more about me at keithedwards.com. I'm hosting this conversation today from Minneapolis, Minnesota, which is the ancestral home of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples. Keith Edwards:Let's get to the conversation. Today I have these three fabulous folks here who have done a lot of thinking and research and scholarship around white men on college campuses and what is going on with them and how are they impacting others and how can we reach them from critical perspectives? So I'd love to have you just all introduce yourself, tell us a little bit about who you are and what your day job is. And then also, if you could tell us a little bit about how you got interested or how you got started in really critically exploring white men on campus and Nolan. I think we're going to begin with you. Nolan Cabrera:All right. Thank you so much for her, for having me and putting this together. It's going to be a wonderful conversation. Nolan Cabrera - associate professor at the University of Arizona. He, him, his. And in my day job, I teach about issues of race, racism, campus, racial dynamics critical race theory and also introduction to issues in higher education. How I got into this issue is sort of a professional and a personal, really the personal drives that, and that was growing up in McMinnville, Oregon. And that was in the early nineties. This was rural Oregon, not what people think about Portland, Portland. Yeah. Although I do have a lot of experience living in there as well with that, you know, Portland nice, but also racist at the same time. And I think all of my work, especially around whiteness has been trying to grapple with this issue where I'd have people in my life, who I knew, who cared about me, who were very close confidant, supporters, mentors, friends, family, et cetera, who would say some things that were just really off racially, but 12, 13, 14 years old, you can't quite put a finger on it. Nolan Cabrera:So I started wanting to dive into that and figure out how can ostensibly good people who I care about and love a great deal, do some really horrific things racially without even really realizing it. And that's what really started to propel me in this direction. Keith Edwards:Wonderful. We're excited to hear more about where that scholarship has taken. Jörg, tell us about a little bit about you Jörg Vianden:Jörg Vianden - he, him,