White Public Space and the Construction of White Privilege in U.S. Health Care: Fresh Concepts and a New Model of Analysis

Blind slaves of our prejudices: Debating ‘culture’ and ‘race’ in Norway

“…The hegemonic majority perspective acts as a barrier against seriously discussing racialization and racism in the public realm. The public realm is in this sense a 'white public space' (Page & Thomas 1994).…”

Their language, our Spanish

“…Anglo Spanish, for example), required for the expression of a highly valued type of colloquial persona, takes several forms" (1998: 680). Lipsitz (1998), McIntosh (1990, and Page andThomas (1994, as referenced in Hill 1998) echo this ideal: White public space is any venue wherein Whites express a visible and unspoken normalcy, and in "which racialized populations are visibly marginal and the objects of monitoring ranging from individual judgment to Official English legislation" (Hill 1998: 682-83).…”

Hearing What's Not Said and Missing What Is: Black Language in White Public Space

“…One could argue that most Black-White intercultural communication occurs either in schools or on the job, where Blacks and Whites are "forced" into contact and Whites tend to be in the position of power. In this sense, I will draw on "White public space" as used by Page andThomas (1994, cited in Hill 1998: 683): "a morally significant set of contexts that are the most important sites of the practices of racializing hegemony, in which Whites are invisibly normal, and in which racialized populations are visibly marginal and the objects of monitoring ranging from individual judgment to Official English legislation." Whites in educational and occupational settings may exercise their power in obvious ways (such as giving an order or firing an employee) and less obvious ways.…”