Definition of Racism Controversy - Anti-Racism in Mathematics Teaching, Aversive Racism, Covert Racism, Delisle-Richler Controversy, Eco-Imperialism, E (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Anti-racism in mathematics teaching, Aversive racism, Covert racism, Delisle-Richler controversy, Eco-imperialism, Environmental racism, Institutional racism, New racism, Racist love, Reverse discrimination, Reverse racism, Romantic racism, Symbolic racism, Whiteness studies, White privilege. Excerpt: White privilege (or white skin privilege) is a conceptual framework, derived from critical race theory, that is commonly used to help explain certain ethnicity-based inequalities. The term connotes both obvious and less obvious unspoken advantages that white individuals may not recognize they have, which distinguishes it from overt bias or prejudice. These include cultural affirmations of one's own worth; greater presumed social status; and freedom to move, buy, work, play, and speak freely. 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. It can be compared and/or combined with the concept of male privilege. Academic perspectives such as critical race theory and whiteness studies use the concept of "white privilege" to analyze how racism and racialized society affect the lives of white individuals. The term itself is most often used in North America and English-speaking countries with histories of racial stratification after colonialism, such as South Africa and Australia. Some critics of the idea propose alternate definitions of whiteness and exceptions to or limits of white identity, arguing that the concept of "white privilege" ignores important differences between white subpopulations. Other critics suggest that the term is a function of reverse discrimination, or that it uses the concept of "whiteness" as a proxy for class or other social privilege or as a distraction from...