Guilt about group privilege may both require and discourage White identity

Evidence

With regard to identity, people who report more White guilt may wish to disidentify with other Whites (Tatum, 1994). Their guilt may be a result of their association with other Whites and the resultant privilege and not due to their identification with other Whites. However, one might have to identify with being White in order to feel guilty. — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt, 31

Categorization

• XREF: Directly speaks to the reader’s stated question: raising salience of dominant-group identity may cut two ways — triggering disidentification rather than guilt. — connects to: Acknowledging group privilege triggers collective rather than individual guilt — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt: Its Antecedents and…, 25; Whites feeling collective guilt may attempt actual compensation or partial reparation to restore equity — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 470; White privilege operates as an unexamined shared bond only visible from outside (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Group identification can both enable and block feelings of group-based guilt #corroborates (0.95) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 16
• Group identification can simultaneously raise and lower group-based guilt. #corroborates (0.95) — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt, 25
• Guilt requires self-categorizing as a group member #expands (0.85) — Torsten Masson and Markus Barth, The identification-guilt paradox…, 20