Ideological whiteness

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Ideological Whiteness is a concept describing modes of social interaction that help an individual rise in the corporate system of institutionalized racism.

[edit] Origins of the Term

The term "ideological Whiteness" first appears in Toni Morrison's analysis "Unspeakable Things Unspoken." Since then, it has taken hold in the field of Whiteness studies as a structural agent of unconscious racism.

[edit] Dr. Helan Page

The Center for the Study of White American Culture has published a groundbreaking definition of "racism" by Dr. Helan Page, which works to explicate the concept of "ideological Whiteness":

"The aim of this peculiar post-1492 stratification process has been to aggregate an upwardly mobile and putatively 'white' racial group that is stratified internally and that strives to validate its own ascendancy using a shifting range of 'white' cultural practices which are defined as 'white' not on any presumed biological basis, but on the basis of 'ideological whiteness'--a field of racial discourse and representation." http://www.euroamerican.org/library/definitions_racism.asp