Critics often pointed to Bell's oversimplified view of modernity's class structure, the unlikely prospect of meritocracy ever outweighing other sources of privilege, and the inability of his theories to account for the Vietnam war and subsequent "low-intensity" US international involvements.
Over time this saps the economic and political strength that was the source of the privilege.
Reporters might get the name confirmed from their sources, but without the protection of privilege an official police statement attracts, they are taking a risk in publishing if the source has got it wrong.
We shall not trespass further upon your valuable space, except to say that the Negro Protective party will live and its supporters hope never to regret the stand taken for free and independent manhood as a protest against every disregard, from whatever source, of the rights and privileges of the Negro as an American citizen.
Whatever else it is, his Native American ancestry is also a privilege and source of distinction, and he is able to write a happy, or at least happyish, ending.
My aim is not so much to choose sides in the debate between multiculturalism and interculturalism, but to integrate elements of both perspectives in an analytical framework that does not a priori – on political-philosophical or policy grounds – privilege one source of solidarity in diversity over another and looks at their articulation in concrete empirical cases.
The reason Dunn can be shocked by such a verdict illustrates the very source of the sense of entitlement racial privilege brings.
Privilege is a way of framing social inequity that carries a lot of baggage: in describing its history in terms of racial oppression, theorist Cheryl Harris regarded white privilege as a "source of protection; [its] absence meant being the object of property".
In 48 states, American journalists enjoy differing degrees of privilege that protects them from having to out confidential sources and information.
This was hardly a case of privilege rewarding privilege.
