White Privilege

White Privilege

<P>Vital, eye-opening, and powerful, this unique anthology expertly presents the significance and complexity of whiteness today and illuminates the nature of privilege and power in our society. <I>White Privilege</I> leads students through the ubiquity and corresponding invisibility of whiteness; the historical development of whiteness and its role in race relations over time; the real everyday effects of privilege and its opposite, oppression; and finally, how our system of privilege can be changed. </P>The thoroughly updated fifth edition explores:</P><UL><LI>color-blind racism</LI><P></P><LI>virtual probation </LI><P></P><LI>socioeconomic privilege versus. racial privilege</LI><P></P><LI>racial profiling,</LI><P></P><LI>how immigration and questions of citizenship are historically tied to understandings of race</LI><P></P><LI>the racial positioning of groups that are neither white nor black</LI><P></P><LI>the commonalities and diverse experiences of people of color,</LI><P></P><LI>"flying while brown"</LI><P><LI>the politics of respectability in the age of Obama, and more.</LI></UL>