The 8 White identities

By Barrier Hesse

There is a regime of whiteness. and there are [actioneorrer'.ted] white

identities. People who identify With whiteness are one of these. It's about

time we build an ethnography of whiteness. Since white people have been

the ones writing about and qoverning Others.

1. White Supremacist

Clearly marked white society that preserves. names. and

values white superiority

2. White Voyeurism

Wouldn't challenge a white supremamst. desires [none]

whiteness because [as] interesting. pleasurable. seeks to

control the consumption and appropriation of new

whiteness. iasonation with culture in consuming Black

culture Without the burden of Blacknessi

3. White Privilege

May CHUun supremacy. but a deep investment in questions

of fairness/equaiity under the normalization of whiteness

and the white rule. sworn goal of 'diversrty'

4. White Benefit

Sympathetic to a set of issues but only privateiyg won't

speak/act in solidarity publicly because benefittInq through

whiteness In public Home FCC are in this Kategory as welli

S. White Confessional

Some exposure of whiteness takes place. but as a way of

being accountable to POC [m.] seek validation from POC

6. White Critical

Take on board critiques of whiteness and invest in

[exposing.i'marking] the white regime refuses to be complicit

with the regime. whiteness speaking back to whiteness

7. White Traitor

Actively refuses complicity. names what's going on. intention

is to subvert [white] authority and tell the truth at whatever

cost. need them to dismantle institutions

8. White Abolitionist

Changing institutions. dismantling whiteness. and not

allowtnq whiteness to reassert itself

Ethnography of whiteness

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