Interrogating Whiteness

Question 1

demonstrating an internal conflict between beliefs in fair play and egalitarian values and remnants of prejudicial beliefs about (or aversions to) people of colour

Answer 1

Aversive Racism

Question 2

negative feelings about people of colour are expressed primarily at the policy level

Answer 2

Symbolic Racism

Question 3

Four Levels of Oppression

Answer 3

Personal, Interpersonal, Institutional, Cultural

Question 4

Values, beliefs, feelings

Answer 4

Personal

Question 5

actions, behaviours, language

Answer 5

Interpersonal

Question 6

Rules, policies, procedures

Answer 6

Institutional

Question 7

Our ideas about truth and morality, universal beauty standards

Answer 7

Cultural

Question 8

unearned, unasked-for, and invisible benefits and advantages received in society based on the nature of their identity

Answer 8

Privilege

Question 9

having greater access to power and resources than people of colour in the same situation do

Answer 9

White privilege

Question 10

Describes how whites circulate and reinforce racial messages that position whites as superior

Answer 10

White racial frame

Question 11

Taboo to openly talk about race

Answer 11

White socialization

Question 12

• a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves
• a response or “condition” produced and reproduced by the continuous social and material advantages of whiteness
• white moral objection to racism increases white resistance to acknowledging complicity with it

Answer 12

White Fragility

Question 13

suggesting that a white person’s viewpoint comes from a racialized frame of reference

Answer 13

Challenge to objectivity

Question 14

when people of colour discuss race and their racial perspectives

Answer 14

Challenge to White racial codes

Question 15

occurs when people of colour do not cater to or protect white people’s feelings in regard to race

Answer 15

Challenge to White racial expectations and need/entitlement to racial comfort

Question 16

when people of colour choose not, or are reluctant, to tell disclose/discuss/answer questions about their racial experiences with whites

Answer 16

Challenge to colonialist relations

Question 17

happens when another white person does not support or agree with a white person’s interpretations

Answer 17

Challenge to White Solidarity:

Question 18

when whites are told that their behaviour had a racist impact

Answer 18

Challenge to White liberalism

Question 19

when group membership is declared to have significance

Answer 19

Challenge to individualism

Question 20

when access is recognized to vary across races and certain racial groups have more access than others

Answer 20

Challenge to meritocracy

Question 21

when a person of colour holds or occupies a position in leadership

Answer 21

Challenge to White authority

Question 22

when information disseminated to whites about people of colour is expressed in a stereotypical frame, such as a movie or book that centers on a person of colour that does not exhibit stereotypical tropes

Answer 22

Challenge to White centrality

Question 23

racism is assumed to belong to the realm of ideas and prejudices

Answer 23

Individualistic Fallacy

Question 24

conflates de jure legal progress with de facto racial progress

Answer 24

Legalistic Fallacy

Question 25

assumes that the presence of people of colour in influential positions is evidence of the eradication of racial obstacles

Answer 25

Tokenistic Fallacy

Question 26

history is inconsequential today

Answer 26

A historical Fallacy

Question 27

the assumption that racism is fixed

Answer 27

Fixed Fallacy