White Privilege, White Poverty: Reckoning with Class and Race in America

Vocabulary flashcards defining key concepts, terms, and demographic statistics from the text 'White Privilege, White Poverty: Reckoning with Class and Race in America'.

White privilege

The economic, political, cultural, and psychological advantages of Whiteness.

White fragility

Deflection, dismissal, and denial of the economic, political, cultural, and psychological advantages of Whiteness.

White poverty

A multidimensional reality with economic, cultural, psychological, and symbolic facets that is often ignored and serves as a source of shame and stigma.

Problem of Whiteness

The term describing the realities of White privilege and White poverty alongside their suppression.

Suppression of Whiteness

The intentional or subtle process through which White privilege and poverty are masked or denied, supported by upper-class suppression of class consciousness, meritocratic narratives, and color-blind discourses.

Erika Blacksher and Sean A. Valles

The authors of the report 'White Privilege, White Poverty: Reckoning with Class and Race in America'.

Exceptions to higher U.S. mortality rates

Cancer and cardiovascular diseases, which are exceptions to the higher U.S. mortality rates relative to peer high-income countries.

U.S. life expectancy trend in 2014

The year in which U.S. life expectancy stopped increasing and began to decrease.