These two types of whiteness perspectives are represented well in our society. As exampled by Troy Duster’s very own example of the Chicago police morphing himself from an occupying force of domination, into someone there ‘to protect a woman citizen’ from a suspicious character. In South Africa, critics of affirmative action programs would place blacks in positions held …show more content…
In the United States there were significant persisting wage and salary differences between the races; with blacks earning anywhere from about two- thirds to three- quarters of what whites could obtain in wages and salaries. In the 1970s almost every major metropolitan area was primarily white – the average family net income of individuals in the United States who were socially designated as “white” was $43,279. While the average family net income of individuals who were socially designated as “black” was $4,169. During the National Housing Act of 1937, whites were able to get housing loans at 3 to 5 percent, while blacks were routinely denied such