White Privilege, White Poverty
Reckoning with Class and Race in America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20335366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erika Blacksher (0000-0002-0098-7154), Sean A Valle (0000-0003-0140-6857), Sean A Valles |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | S51-S57 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/hast.1230 |
| PMID | 33630341 |
| OpenAlex | W3131563105 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 40 |
This essay argues that a failure to think and talk critically and candidly about White privilege and White poverty is a key threat to the United States of America's precarious democracy. Whiteness frames one of America's most pressing collective challenges—the poor state of the nation's health, which lags behind other wealthy nations and is marred by deep and entrenched class‐ and race‐based inequities. The broadscale remedies experts recommend demand what is in short supply: trust in evidence, experts, government, and one another. The authors’ prescription is threefold, beginning with a call for intersectional health studies and reports that avoid one‐dimensional misrepresentations of widespread health problems as simply Black or White problems. Second, there is the need for a “critical consciousness” about race and class. Lastly, the essay calls for widescale opportunities for Americans to engage in cross‐racial and cross‐class democratic conversations about their struggles and aspirations in search of common ground
Criminology · Democracy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Privilege (computing) · Race (biology) · Racism · Silence · Sociology · White (mutation) · White privilege · Gender Studies · Law · Obesity and Health Practices · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Racism Without Racists
Not Quite White
Health Disparities By Race And Class
Where Health Disparities Begin
Why Do Americans Have Shorter Life Expectancy and Worse Health Than Do People in Other High-Income Countries?
Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and in England
Personal Responsibility for Health? A Review of the Arguments and the Evidence at Century’s End
Trends in Opioid Prescribing by Race/Ethnicity for Patients Seeking Care in US Emergency Departments
Eight Americas
Broadening the FocusThe Need to Address the Social Determinants of Health
Life Expectancy and Mortality Rates in the United States, 1959-2017
Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health The Added Effects of Racism and Discrimination
Class — The Ignored Determinant of the Nation's Health
Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century
Status threat, not economic hardship, explains the 2016 presidential vote
Rethinking Race
The Moral Significance of Class
US Socioeconomic and Racial Differences in Health
Intersectional inequalities and the U.S. opioid crisis
Growing sense of social status threat and concomitant deaths of despair among whites
Inequalities in multiple health outcomes by education, sex, and race in 93 US counties
The Myth of Meritocracy and African American Health
Socioeconomic Disparities in Health in the United States
Trends in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation by Educational Attainment
Deliberativedemocratictheory
The effects of whiteness on the health of whites in the USA
Critical Literacy among the Working Poor
Participatory Citizens - Desirable? Possible? Practical
Miles to Go before We Sleep
What Group?' Studying Whites and Whiteness in the Era of 'Color-Blindness
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |