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15 hours ago · White Americans (also referred to as European Americans) are Americans who identify as white people. This group constitutes the majority of the people in the United States. According to the 2020 census, 71%, or 235,411,507 people, were White alone or in combination, and 61.6%, or 204,277,273 people, were White alone.
2 days ago · Similar to the United Kingdom, whiteness is defined in the United States as an ongoing process of history to reproduce local, national, and geopolitical relations as a result of colonization (Hunter, Swan, & Grimes, 2010). In the United States, the dominance of white norms is a result of the country’s history of gaining power by way of ...
3 days ago · I recognized that they shared many of the hallmarks of broad definitions of reparations. Your paper states that “ Hayley v. Hayley is just one in a collection of lawsuits in which Black Americans successfully sued the families of their former enslavers for a variety of things, including land, money, or even control of entire estates ...
3 days ago · While the United States has often been called the land of equal opportunity, the stark disparities of the Black-white wealth gap should make us all question this claim. Despite some progress, the enduring legacy of racial inequality has led to systemic barriers that perpetuate a huge divide, and in recent decades, that divide has widened even ...
2 days ago · Daina Ramey Berry | Credit: Courtesy. “The fact that Juneteenth is a national holiday reflects the same broad changes that have allowed for a public conversation about reparations,” said Giuliana Perrone, an associate history professor at UC Santa Barbara. Perrone’s most recent study of reparations examines lawsuits from the late 1800s in ...
2 days ago · Race remains a sensitive issue in the United States, four years after tensions flared over the killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans at the hands of police. Floyd's killing sparked a ...
5 days ago · We explore the implications of considering whiteness as an institutionally-sponsored, state-sanctioned form of licensed property. The identification of neoliberalism as a dominant form of institutionalized whiteness centers understandings of the racialized contractual terms operating discursively under the auspices of white supremacist ...
