OPINION: Racialised privilege works through a lens of colour-blindness. Whiteness is the taken-for-granted set of norms, values, aesthetics and patterns of behaviour against which all other races are measured and judged.
white racial identity is shown to be completely removed from discourses on race so that everyone is raced except for whites, in essence making whiteness invisible and white skin “raceless”.
It is the unearned, unseen and unacknowledged privileges of whiteness that enable white people to exist outside the racial sphere and not have to consider how race positions them in society or affects their life chances.
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