Eftersom begrepet vithet tydligen förbryllar och ingen har kommenterat länkarna som jag postade tidigare i tråden så klipper jag in en pedagogisk liten lista:
Key Features of Whiteness
Whiteness is multidimensional, complex, systemic and systematic:
Från http://www.ucalgary.ca/cared/whiteness
Jag tror att detta är nyttig läsning för alla som av sin omgivning betraktas som vita. Observera att det inte handlar om genetisk vithet (rent utseende) utan utgångspunkten är att granska vithet som en konstruktion.
Key Features of Whiteness
Whiteness is multidimensional, complex, systemic and systematic:
- It is socially and politically constructed, and therefore a learned behavior
- It does not just refer to skin colour but is ideology based on beliefs, values behaviors, habits and attitudes, which result in the unequal distribution of power and privilege based on skin colour (Frye, 1983; Kivel, 1996)
- It represents a position of power where the power holder defines the categories, which means that the power holder decides who is white and who is not (Frye, 1983)
- It is relational. "White" only exists in relation/opposition to other categories/locations in the racial hierarchy produced by whiteness. In defining ‘others,' whiteness defines itself.
- It is fluid - who is considered white changes over time (Kivel, 1996)
- It is a state of unconsciousness: whiteness is often invisible to white people, and this perpetuates a lack of knowledge or understanding of difference which is a root cause of oppression (hooks, 1994)
- It shapes how white people view themselves and others, and places white people in a place of structural advantage where white cultural norms and practices go unnamed and unquestioned (Frankenberg, 1993). Cultural racism is founded in the belief that "whiteness is considered to be the universal . . . and allows one to think and speak as if Whiteness described and defined the world." (Henry & Tator, 2006, p. 327)
Från http://www.ucalgary.ca/cared/whiteness
Jag tror att detta är nyttig läsning för alla som av sin omgivning betraktas som vita. Observera att det inte handlar om genetisk vithet (rent utseende) utan utgångspunkten är att granska vithet som en konstruktion.