Racism persists as unconscious normalized privileging of whiteness

Evidence

Despite the Universal Declaration that there should be no place for racism in our lives, there is insufficient inter/national commitment to educate children, inform adults, and provide citizens with relevant information about how to identify racism, how it is communicated, how it is experienced, and how it can be countered. The notion of everyday racism can be a helpful tool for understanding that racism is a process involving the continuous, often unconscious, exercise of power predicated in taking for granted the privileging of whiteness (Frankenberg, 1993), the universality of Western criteria of human progress, and the primacy of European (derived) cultures. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1466

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the analytic content of ‘everyday racism’ as unremarked, habitual power.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1466
• XREF: connects to: Racism’s modes persist after being severed from their categories of meaning — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1867; Implicit signals like gasps can mark feminism as a white private cult — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 210; Everyday racism is a continuous, often unconscious exercise of power that presupposes white privilege — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1466 (+2 more)