Pretty fly for a former local white guy
2 comments March 5th, 2009
“Shawn Alexander can recognize the look immediately. It’s one of surprise when a student enters his African-American studies class and finds, standing at the front, a white guy,” according to today’s Chicago Tribune.
“Years ago, it happened more,” said Alexander, 38, who grew up near Rockford and teaches at the University of Kansas. “I’d see the kids walk into my room, look down at their registration cards and up at me, and then walk out to make sure they had the right classroom.”
The story also says that on the 40th anniversary of African-American studies, only a few white scholars are teaching the discipline.
