The paper is a bit dated, but Peggy McIntosh recently gave an interview where she discussed some of the concerns you seem to be speaking to: The key thing is t

The paper is a bit dated, but Peggy McIntosh recently gave an interview where she discussed some of the concerns you seem to be speaking to: The key thing is to let people testify to their own experience. Then they’ll stop fighting with each other... “Unless you let the students testify to what they know, which schools usually don’t let them do, they will continue to do just what the dominant society wants them to do, which is to tear each other apart.” The students who are sitting there fighting with one another aren’t allowed to have their lives become the source for their own growth and development. Adrienne Rich wrote, at the beginning of women’s studies, “Nobody told us we have to study our lives, make of our lives a study.” http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/05/the-woman-who-coined-the-term-white-privilege.html?mbid=gnep http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/05/the-woma...