BIAS1. Ethic study. White Fragility Good/Bad Binary

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I. White Fragility Good/Bad Binary
The normalization of whiteness in U.S. society is an intentional choice meant to maintain one group’s dominance over all. The value judgment of “good” or “bad” is, accordingly, mediated by racial bias and is maintained across all domains, or spaces, of public encounters along racial lines. The good/bad binary is discussed by DiAngelo (2011) in more detail. In contrast to a mainstream conceptualization in racial studies of fragility experienced by people of color, DiAngelo proposed White Fragility instead:
White Fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium [emphasis added]. (DiAngelo, p. 54)
This White Fragility is evident, argues DiAngelo, in different white practices. Notably, white privilege, rarely acknowledged, is well embedded in racial segregation, racial belonging and representation in everything. For current purposes, a good/bad binary about racial segregation is discussed.
According to DiAngelo, “good” and “bad” are used by whites to embed, or encode, implicit messages of an all-white presence well isolated from non-white one. That is,
The quality of white space being in large part measured via the absence of people of color (and Blacks in particular) is a profound message indeed, one that is deeply internalized and reinforced daily through normalized discourses about good schools
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and neighborhoods. This dynamic of gain rather than loss via racial segregation may be the most profound aspect of white racial socialization of all. Yet, while discourses about what makes a space good are tacitly understood as racially coded, this coding is explicitly denied by whites [emphasis added]. (DiAngelo, pp. 58-59)
In so doing, whites confirm a good/bad binary, understood as white/non-white, by establishing a segregated white community – not necessarily physically but, as DiAngelo argues, representationally and informationally.
* Latinos Beyond Reel
In Latinos Beyond Reel, Hispanic, or Latino, community in U.S., has long experienced bias, if not outright social stigma and persecution. Despite Latino diversity, immigrants of Latino descent are almost always lumped into one ethnicity and culture. To maintain a (white) mainstream image of Latinos, news media and entertainment industry continue to confirm misrepresented, stereotypical images of violent, macho, morally loose and, of course, illegal. These representations are, like all media images, cons...