White savior, the Glossary
The term white savior is a critical description of a white person who is depicted as liberating, rescuing or uplifting non-white people; it is critical in the sense that it describes a pattern in which people of color in economically under-developed nations that are majority non-white are denied agency and are seen as passive recipients of white benevolence.[1]
Table of Contents
102 relations: Africa, Agency (sociology), Angelina Jolie, Asian Americans, BBC News, Bhakti Shringarpure, Bill Gates, Bob Geldof, Bono, Boston Public, Celebrity, Charlize Theron, Cinema of the United States, Colonisation of Africa, Comic Relief, Dangerous Minds, David Lammy, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Diff'rent Strokes, Donald Bogle, Feminism, Finn Jones, Foreign Affairs, Gap year, Gender, Place & Culture, George Clooney, Haiti, Heart of Darkness, Instagram, International volunteering, Inverse (website), Io9, Iron Fist (character), Iron Fist (TV series), Islamophobia, Joseph Conrad, Journal of Popular Film & Television, Karen Attiah, Kony 2012, Labour Party (UK), Lady Gaga, Lin Lie, Live Aid, Los Angeles Times, Louise Linton, Machine Gun Preacher, Madonna, Malala Yousafzai, Malawi, Marvel Comics, ... Expand index (52 more) »
- Inequality
- Race (human categorization)
- White culture
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
Agency (sociology)
In social science, agency is the capacity of individuals to have the power and resources to fulfill their potential.
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Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian.
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Asian Americans
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Bhakti Shringarpure
Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer, editor and academic, who is creative director of the Radical Books Collective, founding editor of Warscapes online magazine and is an associate professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Connecticut.
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Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
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Bob Geldof
Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof (born 5 October 1951) is an Irish singer-songwriter and political activist.
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Bono
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), known by the nickname Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter and activist.
Boston Public
Boston Public is an American drama television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on Fox.
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Celebrity
Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of a person or group as a result of the attention given to them by mass media.
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Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron (born 7 August 1975) is a South African and American actress and producer.
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Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.
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Colonisation of Africa
External colonies were first founded in Africa during antiquity.
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Comic Relief
Comic Relief is a British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Sir Lenny Henry in response to the famine in Ethiopia.
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Dangerous Minds
Dangerous Minds is a 1995 American drama film directed by John N. Smith, written by Ronald Bass, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer.
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David Lammy
David Lindon Lammy (born 19 July 1972) is an English politician and lawyer who has served as Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom since July 2024.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.
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Diff'rent Strokes
Diff'rent Strokes is an American television sitcom, which aired on NBC from November 3, 1978, to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985, to March 7, 1986.
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Donald Bogle
Donald Bogle is an American film historian and author of six books concerning black history in film and on television.
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Feminism
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.
Finn Jones
Finn Jones (born Terence Jones; 24 March 1988) is an English actor known for his roles as Loras Tyrell in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2016) and Danny Rand / Iron Fist in the Netflix television shows Iron Fist (2017–2018), The Defenders (2017), and Luke Cage (2018), which are set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.
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Gap year
A gap year, also known as a sabbatical year, is a period of time when students take a break from their studies, usually after completing high school or before beginning graduate school.
Gender, Place & Culture
Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography is a peer-reviewed journal published 12 times a year by Taylor & Francis.
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George Clooney
George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker.
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Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior.
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Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms.
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International volunteering
International volunteering is when volunteers contribute their time to work for organisations or causes outside their home countries.
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Inverse (website)
Inverse is an online magazine from Bustle Digital Group, covering topics such as technology, science, and culture for a millennial audience.
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Io9
io9 is a sub-blog of the technology blog Gizmodo that focuses on science fiction and fantasy pop culture, with former focuses on science, technology and futurism.
Iron Fist (character)
Iron Fist (Daniel Thomas "Danny" Rand) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Iron Fist (TV series)
Marvel's Iron Fist is an American television series created by Scott Buck for the streaming service Netflix, based on the Marvel Comics character Iron Fist.
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Islamophobia
Islamophobia is the irrational fear of, hostility towards, or prejudice against the religion of Islam or Muslims in general. White savior and Islamophobia are Racism.
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Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski,; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer.
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Journal of Popular Film & Television
Journal of Popular Film and Television is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge, which purchased it from Heldref Publications in 2009.
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Karen Attiah
Karen Attiah (born August 12, 1986) is an American writer, journalist, and editor.
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Kony 2012
Kony 2012 is a 2012 American short documentary film produced by Invisible Children, Inc. The film's purpose was to make Ugandan cult leader, war criminal, and ICC fugitive Joseph Kony globally known so as to have him arrested by the end of 2012.
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Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.
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Lady Gaga
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer-songwriter and actress.
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Lin Lie
Lin Lie (Chinese: 林烈) is a Chinese superhero originally appearing in web manhua and later American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Live Aid
Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985.
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Louise Linton
Louise Linton (née Hay; born 20 December 1980) is a Scottish actress.
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Machine Gun Preacher
Machine Gun Preacher is a 2011 American biographical action drama film directed by Marc Forster and starring Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, and Michael Shannon.
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Madonna
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai (ملالہ یوسفزئی,, pronunciation:; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani female education activist and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the age of 17.
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Malawi
Malawi (in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa.
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics is an American comic book publisher and the property of The Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023.
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McFarland & Company
McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction.
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Military–industrial complex
The expression military–industrial complex (MIC) describes the relationship between a country's military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
NBC News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27, 1959) is an American journalist and political commentator.
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No White Saviors
No White Saviors is an anti-white saviorism social media campaign, predominately present on Instagram.
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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954), known mononymously as Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor.
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Orientalism
In art history, literature and cultural studies, orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world.
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Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Park ranger
A ranger, park ranger, park warden, field ranger, or forest ranger is a person entrusted with protecting and preserving parklands and protected areas – private, national, state, provincial, or local parks.
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PBS News Hour
PBS News Hour, previously stylized as PBS NewsHour, is an American evening television news program broadcast on over 350 PBS member stations since October 20, 1975.
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Person of color
The term "person of color" (people of color or persons of color; abbreviated POC) is primarily used to describe any person who is not considered "white".
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
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Punky Brewster
Punky Brewster is an American sitcom television series about a young girl (Soleil Moon Frye) being raised by a foster parent (George Gaynes) in Chicago.
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Remember the Titans
Remember the Titans is a 2000 American biographical sports drama film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Robin R. Means Coleman
Robin R. Means Coleman (born 1969) is an American author, communication scholar, and educator known for her work in the fields of Afro-American studies, African studies, and media studies.
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Room 222
Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television that aired on ABC for 112 episodes, from September 17, 1969, until January 11, 1974.
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12.
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Slavery in Africa
Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa.
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Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.
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Sociology of race and ethnic relations
The sociology of race and ethnic relations is the study of social, political, and economic relations between races and ethnicities at all levels of society.
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South Sudan
South Sudan, officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.
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Special Broadcasting Service
The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is an Australian hybrid-funded public service broadcaster.
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Stacey Dooley
Stacey Jaclyn Dooley (born 9 March 1987) is an English television presenter, journalist and media personality.
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Syrian civil war
The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided conflict in Syria involving various state-sponsored and non-state actors.
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T. E. Lawrence
Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.
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Teju Cole
Teju Cole (born June 27, 1975) is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer, and art historian.
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Television & New Media is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of communication.
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Temple University
Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
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The Blind Side (film)
The Blind Side is a 2009 American sports drama film written and directed by John Lee Hancock.
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The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Help (film)
The Help is a 2011 period drama film written and directed by Tate Taylor and based on Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel of the same name.
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The Journal of Popular Culture
The Journal of Popular Culture (JPC) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes academic essays on all aspects of popular or mass culture.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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The White Man's Burden
"The White Man's Burden" (1899), by Rudyard Kipling, is a poem about the Philippine–American War (1899–1902) that exhorts the United States to assume colonial control of the Filipino people and their country.
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The White Shadow (TV series)
The White Shadow is an American drama television series starring Ken Howard that ran on the CBS network from November 27, 1978, to March 16, 1981, about a white former professional basketball player who takes a job coaching basketball at an impoverished urban high school with a racially mixed basketball team.
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Trope (cinema)
In cinema, a trope is what The Art Direction Handbook for Film defines as "a universally identified image imbued with several layers of contextual meaning creating a new visual metaphor".
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X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
Viral phenomenon
Viral phenomena or viral sensation are objects or patterns that are able to replicate themselves or convert other objects into copies of themselves when these objects are exposed to them.
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Virunga (film)
Virunga is a 2014 British documentary film directed by Orlando von Einsiedel.
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Virunga National Park
Virunga National Park is a national park in the Albertine Rift Valley in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Webster (TV series)
Webster is an American sitcom television series that aired on ABC from September 16, 1983 to May 8, 1987 and in first-run syndication from September 21, 1987 to March 10, 1989.
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Welcome Back, Kotter
Welcome Back, Kotter is an American sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan as a high-school teacher in charge of a racially and ethnically diverse remedial education class nicknamed the Sweathogs.
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White people
White (often still referred to as Caucasian) is a racial classification of people generally used for those of mostly European ancestry. White savior and White people are race (human categorization).
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Zambia
Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa.
See also
Inequality
- Achievement gaps in the United States
- Criticism of credit scoring systems in the United States
- Delmos Jones
- Disease of despair
- Education inequality in China
- Educational inequality
- Equality rights
- Justice and the Market
- Libertarianism Without Inequality
- List of bordering countries with greatest relative differences in GDP (PPP) per capita
- List of countries by inequality-adjusted income
- List of countries by share of income of the richest one percent
- Occupational segregation
- Opportunity hoarding
- Race and intelligence controversy
- Religious stratification
- Social inequality
- Unequal treaties
- White savior
- Word gap
Race (human categorization)
- African and African-American women in Christianity
- Ancient Egyptian race controversy
- Asian people
- Biblical terminology for race
- Biological anthropology
- Black (human racial classification)
- Borealism
- Brown (racial classification)
- Color Blindness, Whiteness, and Backlash
- Color terminology for race
- Coyote (racial category)
- Critical Mixed Race Studies
- Cross-race effect
- Ethnic plastic surgery
- Ethnogenesis
- Ethnopluralism
- Ethnoscience
- Historical definitions of race
- Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin's Fallacy
- La raza cósmica
- Minzu (anthropology)
- Monogenism
- Multiracial people
- Multiregional origin of modern humans
- Neuroscience and race
- Polygenism
- Pre-modern conceptions of whiteness
- Prison plastic surgery
- Race (human categorization)
- Race and crime
- Race and ethnicity in censuses
- Race and genetics
- Race and health
- Race and intelligence
- Race and society
- Race and sports
- Race and video games
- Racial equality
- Racial formation theory
- Racialized society
- Telingan
- The Apportionment of Human Diversity
- Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities
- Transracial (identity)
- UNESCO statements on race
- White Racial Identity Development
- White people
- White savior
- Y-DNA haplogroups by ethnic group
White culture
- Borealism
- George Lipsitz
- One-drop rule
- Resistance to diversity efforts in organizations
- White Racial Identity Development
- White defensiveness
- White demographic decline
- White guilt
- White identity
- White savior
- Whiteness studies
- Whiteness theory
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior
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