"To be racialized as white, whether you wanted it or not, is to participate in and benefit from..."

“To be racialized as white, whether you wanted it or not, is to participate in and benefit from whiteness. It is to know and move throughout a white-dominated nation, such as the USA, in a manner in which objects, spaces, and places are subjectively known by the collectivity of neo-liberal “non color conscious aware” white people in the USA as racially “neutral.” However, within nations that have have a history of racialized colonialism, objects, places, and spaces are in fact not racially neutral. Dwyer and Jones III explain whiteness to be a type of white socio-spatial epistemology. Such an epistemology is the ability for the white collectivity of the USA to speak from and to “survey and navigate social space from a position of authority” (Dwyer and Jones III 2002, 210), with the assumption that their epistemologies are applicable to all people.”

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