SOCY 1021 Chapter Notes - Chapter 22: White Privilege
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Controversy on why whites are prohibited from saying the n-word that. Whites are prohibited from saying it: spread among other non-black but colored rappers, especially latinos. In hip-hop culture, blackness is associated with authenticity and whiteness with inauthenticity: n-word serves as a signifier of blackness in a culture, where blackness is the center of the status system. Whites benefit from unearned privileges: these privileges are most invisible to whites, invisible package of unearned assets , unearned entitlement, effects their everyday lives without noticing. Hierarchies in our society are interlocking: which is why racism is institutionalized. Claims whites are carefully taught to not recognize white privilege. Could freely disparage, fear, neglect, or be oblivious to anything outside of dominant cultural forms: minority groups could not, du bois would refer to this as the double-consious , racial groups have to think about their stereotype, acculturate. In denial about white privilege: everyone equally earns their own success.
