This article gives a thoughtful, honest take on the influence of white identity politics.
Whiteness has a political meaning as much as does Black or Asian or any other racial category. In order to define non-whites as inferior and deviant, whites needed to be defined as superior and normal. By claiming the category “normal,” whites imagined themselves outside the racial paradigm they had created. But, in fact, they were and are at the center of it.
For this reason, unless whites consciously oppose white privilege, their identities are defined by it.
Original article on Race Files, posted May 14, 2012.
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