Citations:white privilege

English citations of white privilege

1. In critical race theory, a way of conceptualizing racial inequalities that focuses as much on the advantages that white people accrue from society as on the disadvantages that non-white people experience.
   • 1988, Peggy McIntosh, White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies, Wellesley: Center for Research on Women:

     As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.

   • 2005, Robert Jensen, The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege, City Lights Books, page 8:

     White privilege, like any social phenomenon, is complex. In a white-supremacist society, however, all white people have some sort of privilege in some settings.

   • 2010, Carole L. Lund and Scipio A. J. Colin, White Privilege and Racism: Perceptions and Actions, John Wiley & Sons, page 16:

     Those who have white privilege have tremendous power; they never have to think about race or challenge racism. The result of white privilege is that one has to live by those attributes held by the privileged; the privileged judge the success or failure of peoples of color.

   • 2011, Jean Halley, Amy Eshleman and Ramya Mahadevan Vijaya, Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, page 12:

     Critically examining white privilege exposes unfair advantages that make success easier for whites while disadvantaging people of color.

   • 2016, Robert P. Amico, Exploring White Privilege and Race, Routledge:

     White privilege is a form of domination; hence it is a relational concept. It positions one person or group over another person or group.