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Definition of race can vary from country to country, and the use of the ‘one drop rule’ – as defined in law – is particular only to the USA. Similarly in the UK, as with the USA, despite a significant proportion of individuals self-defining as Mixed Race whilst partaking in respective census measures, the media in each country has continued to define ‘people of colour’ as black.

2017-01-17

The definition of race has come under scrutiny by a number of researchers (Case, 2012; Soudien, 2010; Rose & Paisley, 2012). This can include the arguments surrounding the ‘one drop rule.’ This has its origin in the racial segregation laws in the USA that defines the extent to which any person can be considered African-American…
Peggy McIntosh (1997: 291) describes White privilege as ‘an invisible package of unearned assets’. A discussion on the relative advantages and disadvantages of this analogy in advancing our understanding of Whiteness

2017-01-10

2013 essay revisited
“I Don’t See Color” Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege

2016-01-03

Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the immigrants of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Irish, the Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews—were not white, but now “they” are. There was a time when the French-speaking working classes of Quebec were told to “speak white,” that is, to…
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study

2015-10-24

Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study Macmillan Ninth Edition 2014 732 pages Paper Text ISBN-10: 1-4292-4217-5; ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-4217-2 Paula S. Rothenberg, Senior Fellow; The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Professor Emerita; William Patterson University of New Jersey Like no other text, this best-selling anthology effectively introduces students to…
Does the “White Privilege” Umbrella cover Black and Biracial Children? (Survey included)

2015-04-07

Does the “White Privilege” Umbrella cover Black and Biracial Children? (Survey included) Lisa W. Rosenberg: Writings on Body Image and Identity 2015-04-03 Lisa W. Rosenberg This is the first post I have written soliciting responses to a survey—so I’m stating it up front: At the end of this post is an actual, honest-to-goodness survey for…
On My Mixed Experience with “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”

2014-08-30

I have this peculiar, twofold, scrambled-egg relationship with “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” the oft-quoted, seminal article written by Peggy McIntosh in the late 1980s.
The Origins of “Privilege”

2014-05-22

The Origins of “Privilege” The New Yorker 2014-05-13 Joshua Rothman, Archive Editor The idea of “privilege”—that some people benefit from unearned, and largely unacknowledged, advantages, even when those advantages aren’t discriminatory —has a pretty long history. In the nineteen-thirties, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the “psychological wage” that enabled poor whites to feel…
Owning my Whiteness, Becoming an Ally

2013-04-18

Owning my Whiteness, Becoming an Ally The Race Card Project: Six-Word Essays By Michele Norris 2013-04-17 Becky Christensen Ann Arbor, MI Despite growing up in a somewhat racially diverse area in the San Francisco Bay Area, I had never thought about the privileges I had based on being White until I read Peggy McIntosh’s “White:…
A House Divided: The Invisibility of the Multiracial Family

2013-03-31

A House Divided: The Invisibility of the Multiracial Family Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Volume 44, Number 1 2009 pages 231-253 University of Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-26 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Professor of Law, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Scholar University of Iowa College of Law Jacob Willig-Onwuachi, Assistant Professor of Physics…

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