It didn’t take very long for academics to jump on the racial strife in Charlottesville in order to (again) denounce white society in general. Writing in Aljazeera, University of North Carolina law professor Erika Wilson and University of Detroit Mercy’s Khaled A. Beydoun claim that the white nationalists on display in Virginia yesterday represent “the conspicuous face of a broader and stratified movement,” one which “includes statesmen, CEOs, and other prominent faces hidden from our gaze but well-positioned in mainstream society.”