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Understanding Associations between Religious Beliefs and White Privilege Attitudes

Scholars have grappled with how religion in the United States shapes attitudes toward racial inequality, often by focusing on racial inequality as out-group disadvantage. 

The current study extends this research by moving beyond racial inequality as out-group disadvantage to examine how religious conservatism and sanctification of social justice (i.e., attributing spiritual or religious significance to working for social justice) are associated with attitudes toward racial in-group advantage: white privilege. 

Using canonical correlation analysis with 475 white Catholic and Protestant students, results showed religious beliefs and white privilege attitudes were connected in two ways: 

1. sanctification of social justice was positively associated with a dimension defined by greater willingness to confront white privilege and greater white privilege remorse and awareness and 
2. religious conservatism was negatively associated with a dimension defined by greater awareness of white privilege. 

This shows how religion may facilitate or inhibit awareness and action related to white privilege.

Full PDF article at:   https://goo.gl/xIArSw  Abstract:  http://goo.gl/QVbqke

By:  Nathan R. Todd1, Rachael L. Suffrin2, Elizabeth A. McConnell2, Charlynn A. Odahl-Ruan2

¹University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

²DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA

Nathan R. Todd, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, 603 East Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA. Email: ntodd2@illinois.edu

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White Supremacy vs White Privilege in Environmental Racism Research

In this report I compare two forms of racism: white privilege and white supremacy. I examine how they are distinct and can be seen in the environmental racism arena. 

I argue that within US geographic scholarship white privilege has become so widespread that more aggressive forms of racism, such as white supremacy, are often overlooked. It is essential that we understand the precise dynamics that produce environmental injustice so that we can accurately target the responsible parties via strategic social movements and campaigns. Using the case of Exide Technologies in Vernon, California, I argue that the hazards generated by its longstanding regulatory noncompliance are a form of white supremacy.

Full PDF article at:  http://goo.gl/CyiAeT  Abstract:  http://goo.gl/ITckh1

By:  Laura Pulido, American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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