"That Power and Privilege Thing": Securing Whiteness in Community Work

• Published in: Journal of progressive human services Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 117 - 134
• Main Author: Todd, Sarah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 01.07.2011
• Subjects: community development; Community Services; community work; Discourse; feminism; Power; Privilege; Racism; whiteness; Whites

In this article, I draw upon written texts and discussions with white community organizers so as to explore how the discourse of community work secure whiteness not as an act of maintaining privilege but as an accepted, unnoticed, and even helpful way of seeing and acting in the world. This is probl...