GAMBIER, Ohio – The “Whiteness Project” aims to generate a race debate at Ohio’s Kenyon College.

Kenyon’s visiting Sociology professor Joseph Ewoodzie worked with his wife Zahida Sherman Ewoodzie – assistant director of the Office of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion – to bring the documentary to the college in hopes of prompting students to “think about (their) whiteness” in a way that’s not “just guilt and debilitating,” Ewoodzie told The Collegian, the college’s student newspaper.

The goal, Zahida Sherman Ewoodzie said, is that the “Whiteness Project and the discussions it ensures will encourage other office to provide similar opportunities for students to work through these kinds of identities.”

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The Collegian reports:

“Zahida hopes the ‘Whiteness Project,’ a documentary funded by (the Public Broadcasting Service), will spark a greater conversation of race in an inclusive way that engages ‘the majority (of) students in critical ways.’ Being a predominantly white campus, Kenyon has many multicultural programs to include the minorities on campus, yet lacks opportunities to ‘make white people the center of conversation again,’ according to Zahida.”

A screening of the Whiteness Project was held at Kenyon’s Community Foundation Theater Wednesday and featured a panel discussion by Edwoozie and Matthew Hughey, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut.

“The project’s goal is to engender debate about the role of whiteness in American society and encourage white Americans to become fully vested participants in the ongoing debate about the role of race in American society,” according to the college’s website.

The Collegian reports the event drew a crowd, but failed to hold students’ attention.

“As the panel continued, many people filed out of the theater mid-discussion. Ewoodzie commented on his disappointment regarding turnout relative to the crowd present for the screening of ‘Dear White People,’” according to the news site.

The screening included the first installment of the “Whiteness Project,” which featured white people in Buffalo, New York discussing their whiteness and the perceived privileges that come with their race.

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It’s the first in a series.

Whitney Dow is directing 1,000 interviews with white people “from all walks of life and localities in which they are asked about their relationship to, and their understanding of, their own whiteness,” according to the project’s website.

“It also includes data drawn from a variety of sources that highlights some quantitative aspects of what it means to be a white American.”

The first 21 interviews were conducted in Buffalo in July 2014 and feature a variety of unidentified white folks discussing different aspects of their race.

One gentleman – a bar owner with a nice tan, gold chain and slicked back silver hair – tells viewers “I don’t know any people who aren’t proud that they are white, not in my social group.”

“I think affirmative action was nice. It had its time. I think the time is over with,” he said. “Are we going to keep this up for another 150 years? We have to have so many Asians in the fire department, we have to have so many blacks in the fire department, we have to have so many Latinos.

“The white guys will never have a chance to ever be a fireman or a cop anymore.”

In another interview, a silver and purple haired young lady with “Trouble” tattooed across her throat and a baby skull staring out from her chest, tells the interviewer that she experiences the same exact discrimination that black people experience.

“I go out thinking that I’m a tattooed woman that is going to get discriminated against,” she said. “I don’t get the same treatment as a normal white person does.

“I get discriminated against just as much as a minority does. I can’t use the ‘hey, I am a minority card’ because I am not clearly a minority, but I am.”