China and the American University
While teaching at Case Western, I was asked to pair up with other professors as the writing instructor for the SAGES writing program. One particular pairing was with a teacher who was running a class on China. He, himself, was ethnically Chinese, though I think he was, by profession, a German instructor. This sort of thing happened all the time at Case. Well-to-do professors were allowed to teach classes where they weren't credentialed because... why not? I once worked with a Polymer Engineering teacher who taught a class on World History, for instance. I suppose, though, a guy from China knew enough to teach a basic course on China, so at least in this pairing the subject matter 'kinda sorta' fit, but it had that weird sting of academic racism one encounters when one assumes that, for instance, African American English professors know enough, innately, to teach courses on African American literature... even when they're medievalist, or something like...