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Starting from British and American studies on the social and historical construction of white identities and their articulation with systemic racism since the end of the 1980s, this article proposes to explore some of the theoretical venues that the concept of “whiteness” open for research. In particular, it proposes to focus on the forms and modalities of the consciousness of the dominant groups, in order to unravel the processes of racial subjectivization. Indeed, in spite of the scientific evidence contradicting racialist theories, race continues to play an important role in shaping subjectivities. Racism can thus be explored as “field for positive action”, that is actively shaping and generating subjects. The challenge thus is to determine which practices of the self contribute to shape a white subject, in order to capture the forms of tacit assent to domination shown by those who benefit from it.