"Most Whites find it easy to ignore residential segregation. I experienced a good example of this inattention when I told a lunch-table’s worth of White colleagues at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences about the linguist John Baugh’s project on “linguistic profiling” (Baugh 2003). Baugh has developed a matched-guise test in which a single speaker uses a “White professional,” a “Latino,” or a “Black” voice in making telephone inquiries about the availability of advertised rentals in the San Francisco Bay area. The “White professional” voice is much more likely to yield an invitation to make an appointment to look at the property, while the other accents are more likely to result in a response that the rental is no longer available. My colleagues, all sophisticated scholars, were genuinely surprised at this result; several mentioned that they had thought that this sort of discrimination had long since disappeared."

themadeshop: A 6th grader’s advice to next year’s 6th graders.
tibets: here is a cat that was thrown in burger king
vintagegal: The Wizard of Oz (1939)

"Other white people may perceive our stepping in as betraying of our same-race relationships. Comments such as “Who made you the political correctness police?” or “Don’t you have a sense of humor?” or “Can’t Beth [a Native American] take care of herself?” alert you to the fact that you have broken the unspoken code about criticizing another white, broken what Aida Hurtado calls the “unspoken rules of privilege.” (The Color of Privilege, p. 128.)"

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urbanoutcasters: can we all admire that this is painting
vintagegal: Closeup of teenage girl’s wrist covered with six different identification bracelets which are as popular as the milk shake she is enjoying at a soda fountain. Photographed by Nina Leen, 1944