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Definitions of whiteness in the United States. The legal and social strictures that define White Americans, and distinguish them from persons who are not considered white by the government and society, have varied throughout the history of the United States. Race is defined as a social and political category within society based on hierarchy.
Whiteness is a socially constructed concept, identified as the normal and centric racial identity. As whiteness is the standard to which racial minorities are compared, whiteness is understood as the default standard. [ 14] Whiteness theory establishes whiteness as default, through which social, political, and economic complications arise from ...
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]
v. t. e. In the United States, acting white is a pejorative term, usually applied to Black people, which refers to a person's perceived betrayal of their culture by assuming the social expectations of white society. [ 1][ 2] The term is controversial, and its precise meaning is hard to define; some usage focuses on success in education. [ 1]
White backlash, also known as white rage [1] [2] or whitelash, is related to the politics of white grievance, and is the negative response of some white people to the racial progress of other ethnic groups in rights and economic opportunities, as well as their growing cultural parity, political self-determination, or dominance. [citation needed ...
Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political). It is a hierarchy within groups that ascribe them to different levels of privileges. [ 1]
Mark Abrams (1906–1994), British sociologist, political scientist and pollster. Janet Abu-Lughod (1928–2013), American sociologist. Jane Addams (1860–1935), American social worker, sociologist, public philosopher and reformer. Theodor Adorno (1903–1969), German philosopher and cultural sociologist. Richard Alba, American sociologist.
Stereotypes of white Americans have been shown to vary according to socioeconomic status. [ 1] In general, stereotypes of white people portray upper class white Americans as WASPs and they portray lower class white Americans as "backward", "barely-educated" rednecks. [ 8] Rednecks, conversely are seen as "racist, hot-headed, too physical ...