Prometheus 6

Prof. George in California, this is for you.

A couple of weeks back it was said on prometheus6: "I believe collegiate level whiteness studies are deeply flawed by their focus on white privilege rather than white identity. "

A friend of mine (black woman who has left college teaching for other climes) is wondering if you would expand on the above.  The context is, we were discussing the aftermath of the Obama New Yorker cover and one of the blogs (Racialicious I believe) had a lengthy Tim Wise comment that got us going on white privilege for a bit.  This included how one of our own academic colleagues did whiteness-- quite erudite but also plenty of privilege and guilt.  So she was wondering how you thought the field could have developed differently.  I could harvest your published comments and try to patch something together as to what I thought you might have meant, but then I figured why not just ask you...