ABSTRACT
The storm that propels our present wreckage is carried by the force of whiteness, as racial privilege and as supremacy, and just as in Benjamin’s time, there is a current of intellectual collusion, in that some social and political scientists have offerred 'analytical apologetics for the frank neo-fascism expressed by much of the new populist politics'. By supremacy what is meant is dominance, explicitly as coercion but also implicitly through kinds of prevailing consensus amongst white-majority society. Illustrations of the latter include the ways in which once racially segregated societies continue to operate racial zones even while there is no formal policy to support it. Part of the dynamic force of white privilege is that in the rare cases it is undeniably explicit, counter-strategies avail themselves to off-set it. This chapter concludes that applying Critical Race Theory allows us to explore how interest convergence sanctions racialization in context where whiteness and white privilege often run together.
