'Being a white man, in short, was a very concrete manner of being-in-the-world, a way of taking hold of reality, language and thought.' What does 'white man' signify here?
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Correct answer: D. A form of colonial authority
Explanation
The line is from Said's Orientalism (1978), discussing Kipling's 'white man': whiteness was an idea and a role — a form of colonial authority — rather than simply a skin colour.
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