whiteness – Page 3 – Contemporary Racism

The Whitewashing of Psychology

12/01/202010/20/2019 by Ivie Mims

We all have been exposed and influenced to the whitewashing of psychology, whether we’re a part of the professional academic discourse or not. Psychology theories and practices often times inform political policies to educational interventions that impact everyone in their daily lives. Here at Muhlenberg, psychology students learn about these theories and methods but we also are aware of the current field’s limitations. A significant flaw in the field is lack or representation of people of color in research …

The White Center

12/01/202010/06/2019 by Alex Helpin

Nearly everything in the United States is centered around white people and being white. White people being at the center means that white norms are most commonly accepted while other norms such as African American norms are frowned upon. Everything is measured against whiteness because it is at the very center of racism and American society as a whole. White people have established that being white is good while being black is not, both consciously and subconsciously. Close your …

Whiteness as Social Capital

12/01/202011/06/2016 by Cassandra Baker

Recently I was listening to an episode of the podcast About Race, a podcast where 3 hosts discuss current race issues in an open way. One of the hosts mentioned that black assimilation to white culture as a solution to race disparity is problematic. They looked at a specific study that showed that black people who moved to white middle-class neighborhoods before they were twelve had a “compound interest of awesomeness” where they were more likely to succeed academically …

Supremacy and Privilege: The Insidious Consequences of Language

12/01/202002/24/2016 by Becky Goodman

The social constructs that define our reality seem so natural and organic it is as if they were created along with the four elements. But we know that things like race and gender were built by people in order to create a hierarchal society, so how do we begin to deconstruct the categories we both rely on and often cannot see? I suggest that the first step to deconstruction is changing how we describe our identities and the identities …