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White Privilege And Black Privilege

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White Privilege
Dick Hebdige in “From Culture to Hegemony; Subculture: The Unnatural Break” states
“All human societies reproduce themselves in this way through a process of ‘naturalization’. It is through this process- a kind of inevitable reflex of all social life- that particular sets of social relations, particular ways of organizing the world appear to us as if they were universal and timeless,” (142).
Hebdige speaks to the fact that the way society is structured and the way people interact within it today is not typically thought about because it must go through a lengthy process to become natural. Dominant ideologies consist of a set of categories, like race, that subtly guide the way people act subconsciously, and by attributing stereotypes, both positive and negative, to these categories, peoples actions become biased. White privilege, for example, is prominent in American culture and is perpetuated in daily activities both individually and systemically, but it often goes unnoticed. George Lipsitz supports this idea by writing:
“White power secures its dominance by seeming not to be anything in particular’. As the unmarked category against which difference is constructed, whiteness never has to speak its name, never has to acknowledge its role as an organizing principle in social and cultural relations,” (238).
By using whiteness as the standard metric for determining race, as Lipsitz argues, all nonwhite races are by default considered as outsiders from the

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