whiteness
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- noun
- /ˈhwaɪtnəs/
- Specialized
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blanquitud
- Why do I have to go away from my whiteness and decentralize it?
- discourses of whiteness
- whiteness over blackness
- dominant discourses of whiteness
I've been trying to think about whiteness, right, Which is a category.
- I've been trying to think about whiteness, right, Which is a category.
- Well, they are imbued with whiteness, which has been taught to them, hasn't it?
- So, so you can see how neither it doesn't need any whiteness on the skin whatsoever.
- Robin D'Angelo says there is no good form of whiteness.
- So in that sense, whiteness, the salience, the importance of whiteness is kind of tamping down some.
- He just bent over for Western culture and whiteness.
- So we have critical race theory, which is an attack on whiteness.
- In these ways, Joy White says, gentrification creates expanding pockets of whiteness.
- And they think that miscegenation, like race mixing, is white genocide because whiteness is purity in their minds.
- It involved changing your internal whiteness.
- But there's such an allegiance even from poor whites to whiteness and it's privilege, it's superiority.
- You are that much more likely to be perceived as black, with the result that whiteness continues to be equated with success.
- She says again, patina, love, whiteness, reproduces, poverty, failing schools, high unemployment and trauma for people of color.
- And because of perceived mobility of whiteness, it really isn't your problem.
Examples
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And I also have to know that there are certain things, right, that come with whiteness and privilege in certain areas.
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I would say that we need to abolish whiteness.
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Can you take us through what whiteness means?
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Coming to terms with my whiteness was not going to be easy.
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Is racism inherent to whiteness?
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You are that much more likely to be perceived as black, with the result that whiteness continues to be equated with success.
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What are you doing, personally, in your life to decenter your whiteness?
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The citizenship had always implied whiteness and maleness.
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By drawing on discourses of whiteness as savior, whiteness is maintained in a position of power and authority.
Academic text (2012) -
Understanding whiteness is essential to addressing systemic inequalities in society.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Whiteness also names a social idea: it comes from the group label white plus -ness to mean a 'state' or identity. So in social study whiteness describes the identity, rules, and advantages that have become linked to being white in many societies.