I agree that many developments in academia post-1970 have complicated and enriched these ways of knowing, but the testing regime has been able to enshrine reductive, outdated approaches and assumptions in spite of that.

As for the Enlightenment, etc. I’m not going that deep. Indeed, there’s very little danger of those values disappearing due to being questioned or disrupted. To me, saying that white supremacy culture centers ways of knowing to the exclusion of many others is a long way from essentializing other cultures. But I’m a classroom teacher, not Jones and Okun. I find their insights are helpful in thinking about the ways whiteness and power operate.