Eric Owens of the Daily Caller details the latest bright idea from the academy.
Famed public interest law professor John Banzhaf is calling for the establishment of a new academic discipline focused on white people who don’t have college degrees.
Banzhaf, a law professor at the George Washington University Law School, will officially unveil his proposal for a field called “white middle class studies” — or perhaps “blue collar studies” — at the Fifteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities in London on Thursday.
The new discipline would be a counterpart of existing race- and identity-based academic specialties such as black studies, Hispanic studies and queer of LGBT studies.
Banzhaf’s presentation at the conference “will consider, especially in light of the unexpected election of Donald Trump and alarming reports that life expectancy is surprisingly tumbling among white middle-class Americans, whether a new discipline called ‘Blue Collar Studies’ or ‘White Middle Class Studies’ should be added to these other established academic disciplines,” the professor said in a statement sent to The Daily Caller.
