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The notion of “getting woke” (or staying woke) is defined as being acutely aware of racial and social injustice—not just…

Willful ignorance is a deception that we impose upon ourselves, but it is not an isolated lie we consciously tell…

Critical whiteness studies begins with the acknowledgement that whiteness and its concomitant privileges tend to remain invisible to most white…

Critical scholars define racism as a systemic relationship of unequal power between White people and people of Color. Whiteness refers to the specific dimensions…

White talk is the lingua franca of race talk among white folks. It’s a privilege-exercising discourse that usually springs from our lips…

White supremacy is a historically based, institutionally perpetuated system of exploitation and oppression of continents, nations and peoples of color…

White solidarity is the unspoken agreement among whites to protect white advantage and not cause another white person to feel…

The term white innocence in the critical race, critical whiteness, and Social Justice literature reflects the idea that white people, in that they experience the privilege of dominant racial status in a white-dominant…

A socially created “racial” group who historically and currently receive the benefits of racism in the United States. The category…

Identity politics emerges out of the struggles of oppressed or exploited groups to have a standpoint on which to critique…