"White privilege, or white skin privilege, is the societal privilege that benefits white people over non-white people in some societies, particularly if they are otherwise under the same social, political, or economic circumstances."
The advantages that people of white skin color have in society due to historical and current systemic racism.
Intersectionality: The idea that various aspects of a person's identity (race, gender, sexuality, class, etc.) are interconnected and impact their experiences.
Systemic Racism: The ways in which racism is embedded in social, economic, and political systems.
Microaggressions: Subtle acts of discrimination or bias that may seem harmless but can have a significant impact on marginalized individuals.
Implicit Bias: Unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that influence our perceptions and behavior towards certain groups.
Privilege: The advantages and opportunities granted to individuals based on their social identity.
Colorblindness: The belief that race does not matter and that treating everyone equally will eliminate racism.
Allyship: The act of supporting and advocating for marginalized groups, particularly those not within your own social identity.
Cultural Appropriation: The act of taking elements of a culture without understanding or respecting their cultural significance.
Whiteness: The cultural norms and expectations associated with being white, including advantages conferred based on perceived race.
Critical Race Theory: An academic framework that explores the relationship between race, power, and systems of oppression.
"With roots in European colonialism and imperialism, and the Atlantic slave trade, white privilege has developed in circumstances that have broadly sought to protect white racial privileges, various national citizenships, and other rights or special benefits."
"In the study of white privilege and its broader field of whiteness studies, both pioneered in the United States, academic perspectives such as critical race theory use the concept to analyze how racism and racialized societies affect the lives of white or white-skinned people."
"American academic Peggy McIntosh described the advantages that whites in Western societies enjoy and non-whites do not experience as 'an invisible package of unearned assets'."
"White privilege denotes both obvious and less obvious passive advantages that white people may not recognize they have, which distinguishes it from overt bias or prejudice."
"These include cultural affirmations of one's own worth; presumed greater social status; and freedom to move, buy, work, play, and speak freely. The effects can be seen in professional, educational, and personal contexts."
"The concept of white privilege also implies the right to assume the universality of one's own experiences, marking others as different or exceptional while perceiving oneself as normal."
"Some scholars say that the term uses the concept of 'whiteness' as a substitute for class or other social privilege or as a distraction from deeper underlying problems of inequality."
"They note the problem of acknowledging the diversity of people of color and ethnicity within these groups."
"As an academic concept that was only recently brought into the mainstream, the concept of white privilege is frequently misinterpreted by non-academics; some academics, having studied white privilege undisturbed for decades, have been surprised by the recent opposition from right-wing critics since approximately 2014."
"...the concept of white privilege was rapidly brought into the mainstream spotlight through social media campaigns such as Black Lives Matter."
"Some commentators have observed that the 'academic-sounding concept of white privilege' sometimes elicits defensiveness and misunderstanding among white people."
"They...suggest that the notion of whiteness cannot be inclusive of all white people."
"They note the problem of acknowledging the diversity of people of color and ethnicity within these groups."
"Some scholars say that the term uses the concept of 'whiteness' as a substitute for class or other social privilege or as a distraction from deeper underlying problems of inequality."
"...some academics, having studied white privilege undisturbed for decades, have been surprised by the recent opposition from right-wing critics since approximately 2014."
"In the study of white privilege and its broader field of whiteness studies, both pioneered in the United States, academic perspectives such as critical race theory use the concept to analyze how racism and racialized societies affect the lives of white or white-skinned people."
"They note the problem of acknowledging the diversity of people of color and ethnicity within these groups."
"...the concept of white privilege was rapidly brought into the mainstream spotlight through social media campaigns such as Black Lives Matter."
"...some academics, having studied white privilege undisturbed for decades, have been surprised by the recent opposition from right-wing critics since approximately 2014."