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White people have not always been “white,” nor will they always be “white.” It is a political alliance. Things will change.

Critical whiteness studies is a highly contested and debated area of critical race studies which aims to consider whiteness as an ethnic identification and as a site of social power and domination. As such, whiteness is not a property of any one person or social group, but it is actively produced, materially (for example through immigration laws, or systems of property ownership like Slavery, or land ownership as in Australia Terra Nullus), symbolically (through film, writing and art) and affectively (through everyday experience and encounter; like the dynamics between agents of the states, such as police officers or social workers and citizens accessing services, seeking help, support or protection). It is these latter affective aspects which are often difficult to identify, but to crucial to the enactment and reproduction of the material and the social.

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