white
The term white is a socio-politically relevant construct (cf.Sow2011b) that encompasses all people who are not affected by racism. Being white is still considered a social norm and means having privileges, for example in access to the education system and labor market. In contrast to the term “Black”, which was developed as an alternative to discriminatory terms and is therefore capitalized, this is not the case for white; it is therefore written in lower case.