Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It

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In books and articles such as “Black Skin Privilege and the American Dream,” and “It’s Past Time to Acknowledge Black Privilege,” white commentators describe how blackness has become such a “tremendous asset” that some whites are now trying to “pass” as black.

I was skeptical about reading this book just because I only really know Charlemagne other than radio personality. a black man, killed another black man who was attempting to change the negative trajectory of his community.

Legal and Judicial Treatment: Racial privilege can manifest in the legal system, where individuals from racially privileged backgrounds may receive more lenient treatment, lower rates of arrest, and lighter sentences compared to their counterparts from marginalised racial groups. Thus whites, too, may develop a capacity for cultural flexibility, particularly when faced with the demands of straddling divergent social worlds. Processes of racial socialization—the mechanisms through which blacks develop and cultivate their racial identities—are key to the forging of black cultural capital. The book draws from evidence collected in an interview-based study I conducted between 2009 and 2014 in the New York metropolitan area with fifty-four middle-class blacks. Young men need to understand that some things should remain sacred between a husband and wife, and should not be shared with anyone.

For middle-class blacks like Tasha, who can and do regularly and skillfully cross racial and cultural boundaries, maintaining a keen sense of when to display different kinds of cultural knowledge—cultural flexibility—has become a second, but no less critical, dimension of their black privilege.Black privilege refers to the experience of advantage, the benefits that accrue from having access to cultural and material capital, and the worldviews that result from the opportunities and experiences that generate such resources. Beyond the sphere of language, there are multitudes of ways in which middle-class blacks must read and respond to social and cultural cues to gain acceptance in different social situations. Black privilege entails possessing the power to manipulate space, regardless of the degree, within the black sub-world. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.