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Honorary whites was a political term that was used by the apartheid regime of South Africa to grant some of the rights and privileges of whites to those who would otherwise have been treated as non-whites under the Population Registration Act. It was enacted by the then ruling National Party (NP). [citation needed]
These findings contradict presumptions that Asians are honorary white people, which also rest on the notion that the boundaries around the Asian category will be as permeable as they were for...
Oct 30, 2018 · Drawing from primary and secondary data on Asian Americans, this paper elucidates how honorary whites experience racial ideology and racial structure. Such groups blur the boundaries of whiteness and create significant separation from other minorities.
Jan 14, 2022 · It has often been suggested that white people are unable, unwilling or uncomfortable to concede that they benefit from white privilege, preferring instead to imagine racism as a thing of the past, or to view themselves as inclusive and anti-racist.
- Leon Moosavi
Jan 25, 2023 · In apartheid-era South Africa, the government sometimes designated specific people or whole ethnic groups as “honorary whites.” But not everyone accepted it.
As the U.S. census defines white people as people "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East or North Africa", Jewish Americans of European, North African, and Middle Eastern heritage are classified as white.
In this paper, I examine what becoming honorary whites, as indicated by participation in racial exogamy, actually means for Asian Americans. In the sections that follow, I first use a boundary approach to sharpen sociological conceptions of honorary whiteness before refining Kalmijn’s synthetic theory
