In my experience, the whole American upper middle class does indeed have a racial neurosis, increased by the recent BLM protests. An example from my profession (software): there has been an effort to remove the terms "master" and "slave" from all software libraries. A "master" in the context of computer science is usually a computer or process whose job it is to divide tasks up for other worker programs. CS academics and professionals lauded Github (important software company) for renaming master to main, but entirely ignored the fact that Github is owned by Microsoft, supplier of software to the DOD and probably every police department and jail in America.
"POC students" is a very diverse group in America, and I can't really say anything about them as a whole. Often its black or latino students leading efforts to bring about actual political change (certainly was at my uni). In the context of a uni that might be things like improving student worker wages, decreasing tuition, adding programs to help struggling students, turning out the student body to swing elections, divesting uni funds from bad corporations, and defunding the fucking police. Usually the middle class administrators and professors are more interested in the performative stuff.
In my experience, the whole American upper middle class does indeed have a racial neurosis, increased by the recent BLM protests. An example from my profession (software): there has been an effort to remove the terms "master" and "slave" from all software libraries. A "master" in the context of computer science is usually a computer or process whose job it is to divide tasks up for other worker programs. CS academics and professionals lauded Github (important software company) for renaming master to main, but entirely ignored the fact that Github is owned by Microsoft, supplier of software to the DOD and probably every police department and jail in America.
"POC students" is a very diverse group in America, and I can't really say anything about them as a whole. Often its black or latino students leading efforts to bring about actual political change (certainly was at my uni). In the context of a uni that might be things like improving student worker wages, decreasing tuition, adding programs to help struggling students, turning out the student body to swing elections, divesting uni funds from bad corporations, and defunding the fucking police. Usually the middle class administrators and professors are more interested in the performative stuff.