Access to Healthcare and Services: Racially privileged individuals may have better access to quality healthcare, insurance coverage, and social services due to various systemic advantages. If you’re a skeptic, there’s even a “Black Privilege Checklist” listing some of the perks blacks enjoy that whites cannot. For middle-class blacks like Tasha, who can and do regularly and skillfully cross racial and cultural boundaries, maintaining a keen sense of when to display different kinds of cultural knowledge—cultural flexibility—has become a second, but no less critical, dimension of their black privilege. The term “Black privilege” is not a commonly recognised concept or widely accepted in discussions about racial issues.

While this is true, the fastest growing incarceration rate is particularly among black and Latino women. If being black is such an asset, why do many whites consistently move out of communities – neighborhoods, churches, schools – when too many blacks move in? Sociologist Derron Wallace argues that black cultural capital is a tool unique to the black middle class, and that this is evident in both the U.In contrast, middle-class blacks often benefit from having access to opportunities, social capital, and financial resources. Arguments for black privilege may face a hostile audience as acceptance of the idea of white privilege grows.

The restaurant Tasha chose offered a blend of Italian and Mediterranean cuisine, and its decor—modern and sophisticated, with cream-colored leather chairs and tumbled marble floors—hinted at her taste for finer things.Some suggest that people who believe in black privilege still do not understand what white privilege is all about. Particularly as black men, we should be aware that those who are in power will often try to recreate the same cycles of oppression.

And because we havent thought seriously about whats happening with black girls and Latino girls, we tend to make the issue of incarceration solely male, and we miss the different ways in which we need to be intervening not just for our young boys, but also our young girls. It is through these experiences and interpersonal connections that transpire across diverse social institutions of daily life, both in commercial and in deeply personal spaces, that middle-class blacks develop, cultivate, and refine their tastes and knowledge of their black cultural capital.Darryl, a 28-year-old associate at a large investment bank, is the product of an inter-ethnic black union, the son of a Ghanaian immigrant and an African American.