Analysis Of Christine Emba's 'White Privilege?'

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In the article “What is White Privilege?” Christine Emba explains what white privilege is and how it naturally comes with benefits, being a person of the white race. Emba talks about the societal advantages that come with being in the group called “norm American”. She’s states about how having white privilege has made its self home in America, shifting how other non dominating races lives are being affected. Emba’s article was a success only if you were new to the idea of white privilege or just opening up to the idea. She gives a well rounded bases to white privilege and its effects. She discusses the advantages of being a white American and how you are given a social privilege automatically. How even though some people cause …show more content…

This helps appeal to the success of her article because she’s not only grabbing the readers attention, she makes the reader consider the situations for their self. She puts the reader in situations and assumes that most of them have never been put it. Some of the situations she mentions are, taking shopping by yourself probably isn't going to make you be followed or harassed, the boss is most likely going to be someone of a white race, worried about your race not being accepted, and even if you bought a house in a nice neighborhood the neighbors would be nice to the family. She picks these situation with one thing in mind, these are events that the reader can place themselves in. These are head-lining topics in the news; that these aren't new ideas, she’s just applying them in a different way. Using this list was such a success because it brought the reader into the rest of the article open …show more content…

She made it seem she was talking with the reader instead of at the reader. Her tone was very logical, but not up tight using high level vocabulary, offensive tones, or shoving her ideas onto the “front line” of the article. She allowed the reader to develop their own opinion and ideas about the information she presented. Even at the end of her article she didn't want any of the readers to feel offended, just by the topic of the article. Emba stated, “Pointing out that white privilege exists isn’t the same as accusing every white person of being a racist. Acknowledging that you might benefit from such privilege isn’t equivalent to self-hatred or kowtowing to detested “social justice warriors.”” This was a success on her part because she was eliminating the name-calling, just because you acknowledge it doesn't make you a different

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