1 It is not, and never has been, true that the Hyaenidae is a family distinguished by scavenging. 2  Of the four species alive today-the Aardwolf and the Spotted, Striped and Brown Hyaenas-only the latter two are full-time scavengers.
Social Construction of Whiteness. Race is not based on genetics. Race as a social construction. Biologization of culture replaced genetic arguments, but is equally flawed. Differences between different races defended as genetic, now debunked. Changing constructions throughout U.S. history. Whiteness is a social construction. The result of an infinite number of daily interactions between people in a society. History of de jure and de facto racial privilege and oppression in U.S. Unearned, systematic privileges accrued as a result of being white.
From another perspective, white privilege is a way of conceptualizing racial inequalities that focuses on advantages that white people accrue from their position in society as well as the disadvantages that non-white people experience.his means that the notion of whiteness is not inclusive of all white people. Critics of white privilege also note that there is a problem with the interpretation of people of color. That is, it fails to acknowledge the diversity of people of color and ethnicity within these groups.