White Privilege
It is difficult to understand the role whiteness as the standard plays in supporting social honor past that which is concurred minimized others. The term ‘white privilege’ induces that a white individual’s whiteness accompanies a variety of advantages and benefits not shared by many minorities. For example, the phenomenon can be observed in a working environment where there are two employees with a similar degree of qualification, but one is white, and another is a person of color. For this situation, a white individual may get help, frequently unacknowledged support, in view of his or her whiteness. Another instance is that many white individuals grow up considering the policemen a source of security, assuming they do not pose any harm to them. They rarely view police workers as dangerous. The instance of Amadou Diallo, toward the end of the twentieth century, showed that not all share this privilege. The policemen released more than 40 shots at this unarmed African American man with no criminal record. Discrimination, at that point, is reflected in different aspects of life and social structures such as medical services access and passing rate differentials among whites and non-whites.
Conflict Theory
The possibility that positive qualities and objectives may be gotten from a contention circumstance started to be evident during the racial struggles in the middle of the 20th century. There is no doubt that conflicting circumstances could create a feeling of understanding and regard between clashing gatherings that could help colored people in accomplishing social objectives. Conflict theorists tend to problematize whiteness comparable to non-white individuals. They see how the privilege of whiteness and denial of non-whiteness are connected to the social and political meaning of race and ethnicity.
Feminist Theory
Standard feminist theory has been reprimanded for focusing on the necessities of white women and generally disregarding the requirements of women of color or expecting that their situations are similar. This has prompted white women talking in the interest of all women, making it a circumstance of one size fits all. Nonetheless, feminism is an antiracist development, as there is a requirement for a political development that features the crossing point of race and gender mistreatment. According to the feminists, it is vital to perceive that for women of color, this separation and abuse is doubled or even tripled. Both conflict theorists and feminist activist researchers share the view that white privilege poses a risk to the societal development and needs to be eradicated. Hence, the abstract meaning of race and whiteness are targeted by the theorists. They bring up issues that the observation or ordinary ways to deal with the investigation of race relations are often neglected or overlooked.
Examples of Denied Privilege
As an African American female representative, I can recall some instances of false accusations and biased behavior because of my racial identity. For example, when I was a new student at high school, I registered for the course on mathematics that had the highest requirements. At the first class, the teacher assumed I was not qualified for that course and that I needed to register for the course with the lower degree of complexity. He suggested this without asking me about my educational background or testing my knowledge. Situations like that happen from time to time to me at different spheres of my life. Therefore, sometimes I feel I am denied of privilege due to my race.