ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: G.I. Bill, White Privilege, Tim Wise

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A form of racism that is insidious, operates in different social structures in society! Something that tends to afford more power and privilege ! Term used all over mass media, long use in academia (notion of white privilege) ! Operates in sense that it is both normative, and unmarked! Ex of how it"s unmarked - professor in toronto who told class to organize themselves according to their race ! Having affordable access to good housing, not being shut down for rent on basis of race ! Having privilege to see yourself represented in main stream media everywhere (starting to change) ! Having a bad day as a white person they don"t racialize it ! Mcintosh when she coined the term didn"t access the fact that there"s hierarchies of whiteness predicated on things like interrelationship predicated with class and race (not all white people are equally privileged) ! Opens up with idea that whiteness is normative, unmarked !

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