My argument was not new but rather reflects decades of research on how race and gender function in our society To be both white and male is to be subject to a potent cocktail of entitlement to economic and political power and to dominate nonwhite and female bodies When that entitlement is frustrated it can lead to what the criminologist Mike King calls aggrieved whiteness an ambient furor based on the idea that white Americans have become oppressed victims of politically correct multiculturalism 