White guilt correlates with belief in White privilege and anti-discrimination awareness

Evidence

White guilt was associated with more negative personal evaluations of Whites and the theoretical antecedents of stronger beliefs in the existence of White privilege, greater estimates of the prevalence of discrimination against Blacks, and low prejudice against Blacks. — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt, 14

Steele (1990) argued that White guilt originates from the awareness of undeserved advantage (White privilege) in combination with the gratitude that some people feel for being White and not Black in our society. Similar to Steele, Tatum (1992) argued that White guilt stems from a heightened awareness of White privilege. — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt, 32

Most correlations between guilt and the other scales were significant, and all significant correlations were in the predicted direction (see Table 1). The more participants believed in the existence of White privilege and the more they believed that Blacks often experience discrimination in several situations, the higher were their feelings of White guilt. — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt, 57

As predicted and consistent with results from Studies 1 and 2, reporting stronger feelings of White guilt was related to believing one had more White privilege and believing that Blacks experienced more racial discrimination (see Table 1). — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt, 116

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s question about whether salience of dominant-group identity raises collective guilt versus triggering glorification — this shows belief-based antecedents do correlate with guilt. — connects to: Exposure to pervasive racism knowledge triggers and sustains White guilt — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt: Its Antecedents and…, 71; White guilt scores skew low and most Whites deny feeling guilty — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt: Its Antecedents and…, 53
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt: Its Antecedents and…, 14; Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt: Its Antecedents and…, 32; Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt: Its Antecedents and…, 57 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Exposure to pervasive racism knowledge triggers and sustains White guilt #expands (0.90) — Janet K. Swim and Deborah L. Miller, White Guilt, 71