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In addition to The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, he has written Midnight at the Barrelhouse, Footsteps in the Dark, A Life in the Struggle, Time Passages, Dangerous Crossroads, American Studies in a Moment of Danger, Rainbow at Midnight, Sidewalks of St. Louis, Class & Culture in Cold War America and How Racism Takes Place. [1]
Whiteness studies is the study of the structures that produce white privilege, [1] the examination of what whiteness is when analyzed as a race, a culture, and a source of systemic racism, [2] and the exploration of other social phenomena generated by the societal compositions, perceptions and group behaviors of white people. [3]
Holly Randell-Moon has said that news media are geared towards white people and their interests and that this is an example of white privilege. [166] Michele Lobo claims that white neighborhoods are normally identified as "good quality", while "ethnic" neighborhoods may become stigmatized, degraded, and neglected. [167]
Aileen Moreton-Robinson is an Indigenous Australian academic, Indigenous feminist, author and activist for Indigenous rights.She is a Goenpul woman of the Quandamooka people from Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) in Queensland.
"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" is a 1989 essay written by American feminist scholar and anti-racist activist Peggy McIntosh. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It covers 50 examples, or hidden benefits, [ 4 ] from her perspective, of the privilege white people experience in everyday life.
Like the legend of legally registered lethal fists, whiteness is a fantastic fable and a real-life scam. Through the sheer force of its obliviousness, whiteness can unstain history and codify lies.
The sociologists Philip Q. Yang and Kavitha Koshy have also questioned what they call the "becoming white thesis", noting that Irish Americans have been legally classified as white since the first US census in 1790, that Irish Americans were legally white for the purposes of the Naturalization Act of 1790 that limited citizenship to "free White ...
Whiteness is as transfixing as a distant star in the telescope of an earthbound astronomer. I am transfixed by its ability to transform itself and maintain its gravitational pull. I am mesmerized ...