The Unconscious Habits of White Privilege

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John Sutter talks with Shannon Sullivan, a philosophy professor at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She says she's heard an expression from white southern friends: Northern whites love the race but hate the people. "I think in a funny way that captures some of the differences that Southerners in particular would like to point out is that it has a different style"

When it comes to America’s racial sins, past and present, a lot of us see people in one region of the country as guiltier than the rest. Host John Biewen spoke with some white Southern friends about that tendency. Part Six of our ongoing series, Seeing White. With recurring guest, Chenjerai Kumanyika.

Image: A lynching on Clarkson Street, New York City, during the Draft Riots of 1863. Credit: Greenwich Village Society of Historical Preservation.

Shannon Sullivan’s books, Revealing Whiteness and Good White People.

Thanks to Chris Julin, whose 1991 NPR report on the Wisconsin fishing rights dispute we featured.