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WHITE ENTITLEMENT [1 record]

Record 1 2023-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Human Relations
  • Sociology of Ideologies
CONT

[White] nationalism expresses itself primarily as a sense of white entitlement. To put it succinctly it is the belief that, if [a person is] white and... not doing well, economically or [otherwise, they think that they] have every right to expect better precisely because [they] are white.

OBS

entitlement: [The] belief that one is deserving of ... certain privileges.

PHR

sense of white entitlement

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des relations humaines
  • Sociologie des idéologies

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sociología de las relaciones humanas
  • Sociología de la ideología
CONT

Si hace cuatro años, la campaña presidencial estadunidense fue, esencialmente, un proyecto de reivindicación del hombre blanco en contra de sus privilegios perdidos, en 2020, lo que ha pegado con fuerza han sido las movilizaciones de reivindicación de las minorías en contra de la discriminación sufrida.

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