Abstract
In their respective articles, Uzma Jamil and Shaireen Rasheed incisively illustrate how the epistemic authority of whiteness, which is built on willful ignorance, is reinforced and reproduced under the guise of liberal policies and practices within universities and the larger public sphere. Jamil draws out the post racial whiteness of universities, which indicates the obfuscation of the systemic nature of racism that is continuously reinforced through academic language such as “objectivity or “impartiality.” Her critique is grounded through the terms of the racial contract as delineated by Charles W. Mills and Sara Ahmed’s elucidation of the interaction and orientation of white bodies in spaces to constitute institutional whiteness, where the university is purposefully and intentionally “designed to be used by those who already fit into it.”