ABSTRACT This article makes a contribution to literature on “white-talk”. Existing literature shows how whiteness has been defended by criticizing black people, culture and government in subtle (and not so subtle) ways that allow speakers to deny racism. In contrast to denial, we focus on how white South Africans confess to feeling guilty for their privilege in comparison with their domestic workers. Confessions of guilt are ways of taking ownership of white privilege, while accountability is achieved by intragroup comparisons with whites whose standards and practices are not motivated by appropriate guilt. We conclude by reflecting on the costs of such confessions of guilt, namely in propping up whiteness and maintaining extant power structures.

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通过认罪和拒绝种族主义来支持白人：关于有偿家务劳动的白人谈话研究

摘要 本文对“白话”的文献做出了贡献。现有文献表明，白人是如何通过以微妙（而不是那么微妙）的方式批评黑人、文化和政府，从而允许演讲者否认种族主义来捍卫的。与否认相反，我们关注的是南非白人如何承认与家庭佣工相比，他们对自己的特权感到内疚。认罪是获得白人特权的方式，而问责制是通过与白人进行组内比较来实现的，白人的标准和做法并非由适当的内疚所驱动。我们最后反思这种认罪的成本，即支持白人和维持现有的权力结构。