“…Although White Americans, on average, may be more attuned to White poverty than Black Americans are, some White Americans may be more likely to attend to White poverty than others. In particular, a variety of work suggests that some White Americans are reticent to acknowledge the status conferred to them due to racism in the United States (i.e., “White privilege denial”; Dobbs & Nicholson, 2022; Phillips & Lowery, 2015). Indeed, a growing contingency of White Americans express feeling that White people experience racism (Norton & Sommers, 2011), that White people have been left behind (Graham & Pinto, 2021; Jardina, 2019), and that White people’s relative status is at risk (Cohen et al, 2017).…”