white saviorism
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]white savior + -ism
Noun
[edit]- The worldview that regards white people as saviors and other groups as needing to be saved by them.
- 2015, Keith M. Sturges, editor, Neoliberalizing Educational Reform, →ISBN, page 117:
- White saviorism is a form of false generosity; it maintains and embodies white supremacy; it frames the white outsider as the savior and hero and the people of color as too oppressed, too downtrodden, too powerless to help themselves.
- 2016, Lee Bebout, Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White[1], NYU Press, →ISBN:
- White saviorism reinforces the goodness of whites by arguing that whites must lift up the Other from their state of savagery. […] In these cases, white saviorism seeks to rescue communities of color from themselves and their nonwhiteness.