WHITENESSE AND POWER: REVISITING THE “WHITE FEAR” IN XXI CENTURY
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This article aims to understand and present the ways in which the subjects considered whites daily acts to allow the maintenance of material and symbolic privileges of whites over other racialized groups in our society. And from there, investigate which forms of power whiteness exerts on other racial identities. To this understanding I use the analysis of statements of people from São Paulo of different social classes with the purpose of understand how the white power is put into action in everyday subjects. The survey results indicate that white subjects know they are privileged in relation to non-whites, but are not responsible for this fact. In this sense, the ambiguity and fragmentation of subjects' speech seemed to me very relevant to understanding how it maintains the racism in Brazilian society. The ambiguity appears as a fundamental artifice to the subjects keeps their privileges, exempting them from moral responsibility.
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