white privilege

[wahyt priv-uh-lij, priv-lij, hwahyt]

noun

1. the unearned and mostly unacknowledged societal advantage that members of the dominant white racial group have and members of nonwhite groups do not, separate from but compounding with wealth, income, class, education, and other demographic factors that form individual identities.

   One aspect of white privilege is never thinking about your race, because most things in society are designed with whiteness as the normal default.

Word History and Origins

Origin of white privilege¹

First recorded in 1920–25