ABSTRACT
After the murder of George Floyd, white claims of allyship erupted in social media and in institutional initiatives. This chapter analyzes two problematic trends in this burst of antiracist claims: performative allyship—claiming allyship with social justice movements in order to build one’s own social capital, and marketable allyship—corporate appropriation of social justice movements to appeal to racialized consumers. To counter these trends, Meena Mangat introduces relational allyship, urging white allies to love equity rather than perform it. This requires becoming aware of how whiteness infiltrates our ways of being and doing in the world, and displacing whiteness from the center of antiracist practices by seeking a deep understanding of the impacts of systemic oppression through the lived experiences of racialized women.
