A New York City public school is facing scrutiny after it sent students’ parents a handout asking them to identify where they land on a scale of “whiteness.” The New York Post reported that parents of students at East Side Community High School received the document from Mark Federman, the school’s principal. The handout features a graphic depicting a color-coded meter of “The 8 White Identities,” with “white supremacist” in the red zone on the left and “white abolitionist” in green on the right. The document was developed by Barnor Hesse, an associate professor of African American studies at Northwestern University, Illinois. “There is a regime of whiteness, and there are action-oriented white identities,” it declares. “People who identify with whiteness are one of these. It’s about time we build an ethnography of whiteness, since white people have been the ones writing about and governing Others.” “White supremacists,” perceived to …