“The Social Antagonism between Whiteness and Antiracism: How and Why White Antiracists lose their Whiteness”

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Abstract This article depicts two cases of “lost Whiteness” and unintentional racial “passing.” Based on years ethnographic research, we present the story White people who – largely because their truly-determined commitment to justice activism were thought by others as being or becoming Persons Color. These activists not trying pass. Rather, they are manifestations a “reverse pass,” defined “any instance in which person legally recognized white effectively functions non-white any quarter social arena” (Harper 1998: 382). illumine relationships between ongoing, negotiated process identity formation antiracist United States. We argue that Whiteness antiracism enmeshed paradoxical dynamic: Social emphases enabled reception People Color, while conversely, activists’ observers doubt both moral commitments intellectual prowess toward activism. dynamic gestures necessity examine symbolic discursive factors undergirding construction “race”, turn destabilizes layperson scholarly focus physical appearance racialization.

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عنوان ژورنال: Zeitschrift Fur Soziologie

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['0340-1804', '2366-0325']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2022-0005