Examining Race Privilege in America: The Preservation of Whiteness through the Systematic Oppression of African-Americans

Justin Selner

doi:10.29173/agora17237

Abstract

The prevailing assumption that race-relations have equalized in America is largely based on an incorrect and misinformed understanding of current socio-economic policies and public behaviors. The continued racialization and discrimination towards African-Americans may be linked to strategic efforts that seek to preserve the dominance and authority of whiteness. This paper examines such claims within the context of the post civil rights movement, with specific attention given to the media, education system, and implementations of social justice.

Highlights

Emerging in the 1950’s and readily gaining credibility and support, the notion of race as a scientific indicator of concrete, physiological differences between human beings, has largely been rejected
Academics and individuals who have dedicated their work to the promotion of racial differences have essentially failed to depict any unique behavioral traits that are specific to a particular ethnic group
Bruce Baum, Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia reaffirms this belief, citing that, “more and more scholars have concluded that the zoological concept of race cannot meaningfully be applied to the physiological differences among human beings

Summary

Introduction

Emerging in the 1950’s and readily gaining credibility and support, the notion of race as a scientific indicator of concrete, physiological differences between human beings, has largely been rejected.

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