"Political Education Is Going to Take Place Mostly Outside of Universities Now"

"The term white privilege was invented in the 1960s by leftists, by Ted Allen and Noel Ignatiev. I was very sympathetic to that term. But then as it got into the universities and got to be spoken mostly in the universities, I think we forgot that it only really made sense inside of a social movement, that otherwise if you just go up and tell a poor white person you're privileged, that's not organizing, that's just labeling. It had to be part of a social movement. And even now I'm trying to say 'white advantage' instead of 'white privilege' for that very reason. But the main thing that your question points to is that over the long haul, we on the left in social movements lost out to a more therapeutic and individualistic approach to diversity training." 

Olivia Weeks at The Daily Yonder interviews historian David Roediger.

And at The Atlantic, Rose Horowitch writes about "The Elite University Presidents Who Despise One Another."