In the world of academic anti-racism, the idea of white privilege has become the dominant paradigm for understanding racial inequality. Its roots can be traced to radical critiques of racial capitalism, however its contemporary employment tends to be class-blind, ignoring the rifts that separate educated, socially mobile elites from struggling working-class communities.
How did this come to be? Beyond White Privilege traces the path by which an idea with radical potential got -hijacked- by a liberal anti-racism that sees individual prejudice as racism-s primary manifestation, and white moral transformation as its appropriate remedy. This -politics of privilege- proves woefully inadequate to the enduring forms of racial and economic injustice shaping the world today. For educated white elites, privilege recognition has become a ritual of purification distinguishing them from their working-class counterparts. For the white working class, whose privileges have eroded, bu
