White People Make Everything About Race
A podcast for well meaning white folks, trying to make sense of their own racial identity.
The first half of season two “Is White Privilege a Lie?" is out now!
We’ll return with fresh episodes to close it out in September.
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If you’re white like me, at some point you’ve probably been told it’s not polite to talk about race. But have you ever really thought about race? About your own race? About what it means for you?
Welcome to a show that asks the question: what does it mean to be well meaning and white in a society that has failed to fully address racial disparities?
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White People Make Everything About Race
Season 2, Episode 4: The Five Phantoms; Part 1- Inheritance
For those of us who are identified as white, life appears to have less friction if we don’t acknowledge that privilege exists.
But multiple forms of privilege and power are always present, in every situation and every interaction.
Privilege is not binary. It is not yes or no.
So let’s move beyond a simple definition of white privilege as the money that comes from mom and dad. Let’s start with inheritance, but look beyond your bank account.
Let’s look at the Five Phantoms of White Privilege, what they give to us, and what they take away.
Show Notes:
Many New York employers discriminate against minorities, ex-offenders. Summary of “Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets,” was conducted by sociology professors Devah Pager and Bruce Western. April, 2005. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2005/04/01/many-new-york-employers-discriminate-against-minorities-ex-offenders
Upside Down: The $400 Billion Federal Asset-Building Budget. February 4, 2010. Corporation for Enterprise Development, The Annie E. Casey Foundation. https://www.aecf.org/resources/upside-down
Generations of Advantage. Multigenerational Correlations in Family Wealth. Fabian T. Pfeffer, University of Michigan, Alexandra Killewald, Harvard University. Social Forces 96(4) 1411–1442, June 2018 doi: 10.1093/sf/sox086. Advance Access publication on 13 December 2017. p.1434
The effects of Whiteness on the health of whites in the USA. Malat, J., Mayorga-Gallo, S., Williams, D. R. (2017). Social Science & Medicine. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.06.034 https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/10/paradox-white-americans-mental-health/
How Wealth Reduces Compassion. Daisy Grewald, Scientific American. April 10, 2012. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/.
Signs of socioeconomic status: a thin-slicing approach. Michael W Kraus 1, Dacher Keltner Affiliations; Psychol Sci.. 2009 Jan;20(1):99-106. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02251.x. Epub 2008 Dec 5. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19076316/
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior. Paul K. Piff, Daniel M. Stancato, Stéphane Côté, +1 , and Dacher Keltner Authors Info & Affiliations. Edited by Richard E. Nisbett, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, and approved January 26, 2012 (received for review November 8, 2011). February 27, 2012. 109 (11) 4086-4091 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118373109
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