Whiteness In An Era Of Trump Analysis

Kathryn Moeller’s 2016 article “Whiteness in an era of Trump: Where Do Go From here?” inquires upon the arisen political situation in America and it’s peoples views. She acknowledges the well-intentioned white americans who have become outraged and ashamed by how much support Trump has received during this election, in which she states he has displayed, a blatantly racist attitude towards coloured communities. It is due to this attitude, that the white working and middle class Americans are feeling uncomfortable as they 've grown accustomed to seeing politicians speak about racist ideas in a more lightly fashion. Moeller implies that Trump and his followers represent a long history of systems that have ultimately been created to benefit white …show more content…
Writer and Activist Peggy McIntosh, describes it as white privilege an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was ‘meant’ to remain oblivious. McIntosh came to realise such societal hierarchies, as she was preparing a research article concerning male privilege in america and men’s reluctancy to acknowledge this privilege, though, admitting the disadvantage of women. She points out it is of that denial that prevents male privilege from being questioned. Recognising that hierarchies involve everyone in the society, McIntosh discovers an unattended white privilege that needs to be acknowledged which she suggests could lead to a solution for the racism problem. She paints a picture which portrays women as the constrained gender under the dominance of men, and similarly, white women having dominance over coloured women. She illustrates ladder of hierarchy where by class, race and sex influence the position ending with black women to be the most disadvantaged in …show more content…
He suggests that America is a cultural pluralist society where by groups of minority ‘coloured Americans’ must abide by the rule of the dominant group ‘white Americans’. He explains that in the civil rights era, African Americans argued their distinctiveness on the ground of cultural difference and fought to dismantle inequalities made by the dominant culture . Moeller makes a question of the ramifications of such an event as the civil rights movement and how that may have forced racism to take on a new disguise to remain unnoticed by the publics eye. She argues that nowadays people only ‘kick up a stink’ when racism is being conducted out in the open for all to