Importance Of Whiteness

To begin, whiteness is not an ordinary racial category, it is the dominant category that all other racial categories are compared too. Whiteness produces advantages for white people while withholding those advantages from nonwhite people. This idea of whiteness reveals itself through the decision of the developers who decided to build a resort on sacred ground, known as North Bay Resort. On the sign it states the mounds are, “…irreplaceable pieces of Wisconsin’s Native American Heritage” (Sign on D2L). The developers acknowledge the importance of the mounds, however, instead of protecting the sacredness and importance of this burial ground, the developers choose to exploit the structures. This validates the idea of whiteness in itself because the developers literally have classified this land as a “Native American Burial Ground”, but cemeteries where a majority of white people are buried are simply called cemeteries, and are not a viewing site for other people to visit. Next, in the quote by King and Springwood (2000), they state whiteness is a means to “…represent, and to create opportunity and deny access.” This is representative of the developers creating the resort to attract tourists, which in turn also decreases the sacredness of these mounds, denying …show more content…
It is apparent that the majority of people who are in higher positions of power are most likely to be white. So when an ordinary person has a concern and asks to speak with the “person in charge” or a manager, there is a much higher probability that this person will be white. It is not uncommon to see less people of color in high power positions, ranging from store managers to congressmen. This may be due to white people being the majority and supporting other white people to progress to higher levels of power. This supports the claim made by Leonardo that the color of supremacy is undoubtedly