The parts of the book where you talk about whiteness, and Cubanness and whiteness, and Miami and whiteness, are really interesting.
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We are seeing an uplifting of whiteness to the detriment of non-whiteness.
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"Whiteness is not skin color, whiteness is a system of oppression," adds Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika from Rutgers University.
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It extolled whiteness as a kind of sainthood and anti-whiteness as a stain on the American republic.
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His lecture "Whiteness: What Is to Be Done?" investigates whether art spaces can serve as sites to decenter whiteness and stimulate social justice.
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In the same way that whiteness can be heightened and overrated, when people compromise their whiteness, we sometimes don't pay enough attention to it.
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Whiteness is violence and films like Green Book act like a band-aid on the deep, infected and festering wound that is whiteness and anti-Blackness.
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In the last three decades of scholarship on whiteness as a race, the prevailing view has been that most whites fail to notice their own whiteness.
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However, as people of color, being constantly inundated with whiteness in the media, in our everyday lives, in academia, in institutions, we are required to understand whiteness.
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Roxanne Jones: Donald Trump was speaking into a world of whiteness Overwhelming whiteness, that's what I saw when I watched President Trump's State of the Union speech.
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It was only when Jim also became aware of what his whiteness gave him in a society that privileges whiteness that Kaneisha felt attracted to him again.
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But instead of continuing Oluo's searing indictment of "the heart of whiteness," Brownson ultimately offers whiteness a megaphone with which to make a plea for empathy and understanding.
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Opposite the whiteness / I became > a concave depression.
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In books like "How The Irish Became White" and "Working Toward Whiteness," some scholars have argued that whiteness has expanded to include racial groups that weren't considered fully white at first.
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It's not clear that the pieces interrogate whiteness, so much as they presume the neutrality of whiteness in order to focus on different iterations of white femininity — makeup, dress, gesture, class.
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Point is ... don't judge a book by its whiteness.
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Calls to celebrate whiteness ignore the institutionalized celebration of whiteness that's built into the very fabric of our day-to-day lives, along with the more overt celebrations in every history textbook.
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JW: I guess I just keep thinking about our friend of the pod Ta-Nehisi Coates' piece recently for The Atlantic about America's first white president and how whiteness doesn't want to engage with whiteness, and just sort of accept that Donald Trump is a white supremacist...accepts something about whiteness and power that's sort of dangerous.
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From the conditions of this politicked body — the queer condition, the working-class condition, conditions of whiteness or non-whiteness and gender in motion — Myles questions where we began or must begin again.
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Kaneisha explains to Jim that she began to lose interest in him as she became more aware of his whiteness, and what that whiteness meant for who held the power in their relationship.
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The Racial Imaginary Institute decided to focus on whiteness as their first major initiative, in order to "make visible that which has been intentionally presented as inevitable," to disrupt the "bloc" of whiteness.
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Or even more plainly, it's about the power of whiteness.
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Whiteness has never guaranteed anyone in Hollywood, or elsewhere, success.
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Only later would I learn that "whiteness" is actually elastic.
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The overwhelming whiteness of the people pictured cannot be ignored.
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" "White women are constantly choosing their whiteness over their womanhood.
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Part of that is Hollywood's absolute refusal to decenter whiteness.
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No one mentioned the pristine whiteness that dominated the page.
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But academics have often overlooked the importance of whiteness itself.
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"lesser" whites could be prevented from reproducing, then whiteness would
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And yet: Whiteness is black hole, cannibalizing, sucks up everything.
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That's how I have always experienced my own whiteness, and
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Whiteness, in this context, is more than just skin color.
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After all, whiteness and its trappings remain all too appealing.
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" She called the very concept of whiteness "an inhuman idea.
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Blackness, whiteness, all of this stuff is all a performance.
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The overwhelming whiteness of genetics research is holding back medicine
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Wouldn't that make whiteness a crucial part of its critique?
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Meanwhile, Trump can fully lean into his whiteness and maleness.
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So in my experience my whiteness was not a disadvantage.
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But she was also commenting on another kind of whiteness.
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He understands whiteness as a necessary feature of American identity.
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Is it easy not to think about one's own whiteness?
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In truth, the whiteness of Iowa and New Hampshire matters.
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Racists define both blackness and whiteness in just that manner.
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Did you want to emphasize the whiteness of this situation?
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And historically, the path to whiteness has been extremely narrow.
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The media often conflates rurality and whiteness in this country.
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The criticism around a book like American Heart or The Black Witch isn't just that it's a book that centers whiteness; it's that it's one of many books published by an industry that centers whiteness.
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In fact, academic research suggests that other economic and social transformations unfolding at the same time have led many people to anchor themselves more fully in their whiteness — even as whiteness itself has lost currency.
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Whiteness isn't necessary to tell a damn thing about this story.
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Racism, plus the perceived whiteness of country music's history and demographic.
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As a white woman, my whiteness protects me in Trump's America.
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"Want your whiteness studies degree?" one member posted in December 2018.
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However, I still felt overly aware of whiteness in the space.
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First, there's the blinding whiteness of the Total Frat Movie cast.
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" I heard about Dow because he's become an authority on "whiteness.
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Throughout the room, these killers drown in whiteness, visually and metaphorically.
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Sammi lay on the carpet, staring up into deep, glorious whiteness.
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British royalty has long been synonymous with the idea of whiteness.
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He begins: You feel your whiteness properly at the American border.
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There's a certain kind of romanticism about these women reproducing whiteness.
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It was their own protest—against the prevailing whiteness of pageants.
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It was just slapping a "postracial" patina over its fundamental whiteness.
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But the sparkling whiteness of her blind spot had spread. Again.
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I'm pretty sure nobody ever praised Madonna for overcoming her whiteness.
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In the past that has always tended towards whiteness, men, heterosexuality.
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It's also about whiteness, and the sense of mythical, imaginary attainment.
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" Secondly, he said, "Christian nationalism has always been connected with whiteness.
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Whiteness and America have always been kept synonymous, conjoined, fiercely paired.
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Rather than lose its 'whiteness' (once again), the family chooses murder.
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So their ascribed identity — their whiteness — feels more important than ever.
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White Lives Matter, in response, claims that whiteness is under attack.
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The ties between barbarism and color, civility and whiteness would endure.
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Similarly, wealth (and whiteness) provide de facto evidence of God's favor.
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My gayness no more redeems me than my whiteness disqualifies me.
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Mourning for Whiteness By Toni Morrison This is a serious project.
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Rather than lose its "whiteness" (once again), the family chooses murder.
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Here, the proximity to whiteness is toxic, a danger, a threat.
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On seeing Dominique Duroseau's exhibition, Black Things in White Spaces, at Gallery Aferro, I thought of what Travis Webb had written about whiteness in that article: Ultimately whiteness is not coterminous with the hegemony of white people … whiteness — shorthand for an otherworldly contempt for the body — is a habit, a mode, a glamour to conceal these messy, universally non-white bodies.
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This unifying curriculum depends, much like the nation's reenactment culture, on a presumed norm of whiteness—more specifically a type of conservative, capitalistic whiteness, against which non-white narratives and Marxism are seen as inherently provocative.
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Musically speaking, corniness is usually associated with whiteness, imitation, or derivative crossover.
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I might have also possessed a vague, sight-based understanding of whiteness.
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Friction, resistance of any kind — whiteness, youth, and money removed it all.
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Specifically the absence or invisibility of Whiteness within the conversations surrounding race.
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So, possibly worst of all, this black-and-whiteness discourages nuanced discussion.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Sometimes whiteness just can't help itself.
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It's about de-centering whiteness as the baseline of humanity and relation.
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Whiteness was never the sole generator of philosophical, scientific, or artistic progress.
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I'm not surprised that tech companies have loads of bias towards whiteness.
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What can classicists learn from the debate over whiteness and ancient sculpture?
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Understand that nothing in your life has been untouched by your whiteness.
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As whiteness emerges as an American racial identity, this constitutes a problem.
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In what sense does whiteness carry inherent economic value in our culture?
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It's this guy who comes to save Chris from all this whiteness.
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How do you think about how to portray whiteness in your work?
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The difference here is between an exclusive and inclusive definition of whiteness.
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Business ownership aligns in the whiteness-assumption checklist; not so for blackness.
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How do I escape all this toxic whiteness I keep hearing about?
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To achieve that, though, Baldwin needed a metaphor, the distance of whiteness.
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Part of the book's oddness is because Baldwin associated whiteness with knowingness.
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It is whiteness as history, or the repository of a legitimate history.
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You cannot note my whiteness without acknowledging I am equal parts Chinese.
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JW: It's basically just interest on whiteness, you just collect the checks.
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WM: In terms of, well, in terms of whiteness, but also, right.
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"When white people tan, they are not altering their whiteness," Hunter said.
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Sans ads, the right rail on desktop searches is now blank whiteness.
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Alt-right trolls are arguing over genetic tests they think "prove" their whiteness Alt-right trolls are arguing over genetic tests they think "prove" their whiteness Andrew remembers feeling a "tinge of apprehension" when he logged on to 23andMe.
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One story simply noted that diversity was rising, a second cited the data that results from using the inclusive definition of whiteness, and a third emphasized the exclusive definition of whiteness and therefore forecast a white minority by 2044.
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Then, yellow is no longer neutral but becomes yet another embodiment of whiteness.
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Trump's lily-white juggernaut is defined by its whiteness in deeply unsettling ways.
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" His latest work for PBS is an "interactive investigation" called the "Whiteness Project.
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They had to work their way into whiteness, often by conspicuously hating blacks.
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It's just like how tech's overwhelming whiteness allows for racism in the industry.
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Not aligning with whiteness in this country comes with consequences, like employment disenfranchisement.
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"Cutting the throat of whiteness," is how he described the effort, which failed.
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Like any decent recreational drug, whiteness initially made the Republican Party feel good.
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In a society dominated by white people, whiteness simply fades into the background.
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We live in a world of whiteness and we have to navigate that.
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Amma turns around in her mind the implied whiteness of a British accent.
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There has also always been a certain fluidity to this concept of whiteness.
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But unless they accept it, the crisis of whiteness seems likely to continue.
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Be cognizant of how your whiteness could be weaponized against Black people. i.e.
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A dark tunnel filled with luminescent optical fibers follows the Sancutary's blinding whiteness.
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Not the black absence of everything but the whiteness of its complete presence.
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Ascribing whiteness to it might say more about the ascriber than about Peele.
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"Whiteness is not an ethnicity, it is a skin color," Mr. Pitcavage said.
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It turns people of color into tokens and entrenches whiteness as the default.
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Civil rights movements challenged countries to broaden national identities long associated with whiteness.
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Unless, of course, Liberty University's God is clad in a profane theological whiteness.
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What does whiteness mean, if she can be 20 percent sub-Saharan African?
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Are we unable to tell Brown romantic narratives without grounding them in Whiteness?
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The whiteness of her face was intensified by crimson lipstick and heavy eyeliner.
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But it sounds like you guys think it was more about their whiteness?
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Successful people like him made us secure in our own sense of whiteness.
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That fantastic blue was set against a pure and hardly less fantastic whiteness.
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But if you're talking about general whiteness, there's nothing there to pass down.
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They are replicating histories where whiteness thrives and people of color remain oppressed.
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"Our biggest dilemma in the early days was our collective whiteness," Cormack says.
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He imagined having agency, and putting an end to being defined by whiteness.
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"Your question presumes that there is a static definition of whiteness," Coates said.
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"Schutz doesn't implicate her own whiteness or participation in white supremacy," Lumumba said.
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In other words, whiteness in Europe is a much newer thing than we thought.
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Yet in odd ways, the name allowed her to briefly step outside her whiteness.
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Once the liquid dries, a randomly assorted collection fibers with the proper whiteness remains.
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When Dow approached potential donors for the "Whiteness Project," some thought he was joking.
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Our shared marginalization has to trump (no pun intended) the protection of your whiteness.
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Sam's father, who is white, represents a different form of oppressive whiteness for her.
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The availability of skin brightening products proves that whiteness is still considered the ideal.
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Whiteness has received a closer examination by writers and academics over the last decade.
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Whiteness moves in an overt political way, but also, in these smaller gestural ways.
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What those two groups had in common, for the most part, was their whiteness.
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Without direct effort to counteract TV's insidious whiteness/maleness, things will stay the same.
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Come November, Republicans may discover that it's too late to give up on whiteness.
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In fact, over the last decade, the category has been overwhelmingly defined by whiteness.
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To them, whiteness is beauty and power; it is the pinnacle of human evolution.
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The royal family is perhaps the most identifiable symbol of whiteness in the world.
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In almost every shot, Denis acknowledges the cultivated ignorance and cruel indifference of whiteness.
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If your ball bounced over that wall into whiteness, you found yourself another ball.
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But something about examining your whiteness in such a public setting still feels taboo.
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The only things visible are the whiteness of the figures teeth, eyes, and shirt.
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The overwhelming whiteness of museums has discouraged communities of color from visiting their galleries.
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The idea is to show there's no place whiteness can't arrive, steal, and profit.
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It's usually seen as a counterbalance to the relentless focus on power and whiteness.
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The fact of Eminem's whiteness, though, also means that he reaches a different listener.
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Anton's essay concludes by wondering whether whiteness and sociopathy amount to the same thing.
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So white women who voted for him did so to prop up their whiteness.
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We are again experiencing the litmus test of "Americanness" rooted in whiteness and capitalism.
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Activists don't want social ascension, or economic betterment, to have to correlate with whiteness.
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But these days, white people are also observing one another's whiteness with unfamiliar intensity.
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However, those traditions formed when national identity and culture were essentially synonymous with whiteness.
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It was also to uncouple America from globalizing influences and specifically elevate American whiteness.
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Unlike any nation in Europe, the United States holds whiteness as the unifying force.
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In politics, whiteness has reasserted itself with an insistence that has surprised many observers.
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The very premise of these terms normalizes whiteness, limiting diversity to a deserving few.
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He imagined a world that defied the social order created by an elite whiteness.
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There are, of course, conservative white women who consistently center the conversation around whiteness.
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In The Times Magazine piece "White People Are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness," Emily Bazelon explores whiteness in the Trump era: Being white in America has long been treated, at least by white people, as too familiar to be of much interest.
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My parents always told me that I'm a celebration of my blackness and my whiteness.
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Visions of elevation in fiction/nonfiction start to revolve around whiteness; they become your everything.
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His "relationship" with them is no testament to his peerless diplomacy skills -- just his whiteness.
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But whiteness was created for commerce and to differentiate during the agrarian revolution, AKA slavery.
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When they are, those who do get represented often have one thing in common: whiteness.
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It really helped me be comfortable and not be ashamed of the whiteness in me.
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But at Starbucks, a facsimile of whiteness — and its attendant class privileges — is for sale.
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Maybe he realized the futility of his project, the inherent, unbrookable whiteness of the brand.
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After the relentless whiteness of the original Charmed, these characterizations come off as massive growth.
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Without the advertised pill, "the whiteness I have invested in, will just vanish," she warns.
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The detail about Baywatch that stands out the most to me was its overwhelming whiteness.
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These shows are limited by their show length and for Roseanne, especially, by their whiteness.
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It's a searing musical indictment of the damage caused by whiteness that forces self-reflection.
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Both black and white Brazilians have long considered "whiteness" something that can be striven towards.
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The character of Mrs Who, played by Mindy Kaling, also intervenes in the book's whiteness.
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Some groups pay for their passage toward whiteness by becoming racist themselves, some scholars say.
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"Becky with the good hair" made complicated, emotional discussions about whiteness and status something buzzworthy.
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Whiteness is something that many Africans aspire to, and light skin still has social capital.
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That experience was a deep dive into the, shall I say, whiteness of California cuisine?
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During the 2016 presidential election, did white women really vote with their whiteness in mind?
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In the "Brujas" writers' room, we talked about how proximity to whiteness becomes the goal.
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For this election is in part about white people's relationship to whiteness and each other.
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Under the most inclusive definitions of whiteness, America could remain a white-majority society indefinitely.
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This is where Alice sits, her whiteness set aglow by the uninterrupted green surrounding her.
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Perhaps most poignantly relevant to Americans this week is Morrison's seminal work on American whiteness.
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For their part, the Commanders try to introduce a "Certificate of Whiteness" scheme, which fails.
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BAMCINÉMATEK AND THE RACIAL IMAGINARY INSTITUTE: ON WHITENESS at BAM Rose Cinemas (July 225-220).
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" The NPR podcast "Code Switch" debuted with an episode called "Can We Talk About Whiteness?
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The snow, only starting then to compact into Okjökull, was the whiteness of her breast.
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We're at the juncture where history meets metaphor for something we can call monstrous whiteness.
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For James Earl Ray, his whiteness meant that he deserved better than what he had.
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The newsroom's blinding whiteness hit me when I walked in the door six months ago.
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I think a lot about W.E.B. Du Bois's concept of the "psychological wage" of whiteness.
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Whiteness was once described as invisible, a conspiracy that could never be brought into focus.
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Their whiteness is, in fact, the very reason they suspect that they are under siege.
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One power that "Bombshell" and "The Loudest Voice" do not care to illuminate is whiteness.
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So when did whites start thinking about their whiteness in a politically meaningful way again?
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The scientists hope to further optimize the coating's whiteness by manipulating the configuration of nanofibrils.
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That his whiteness will mean that a police officer might give him a second chance.
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And we're done watching, and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us.
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Men isolate my non-whiteness and zone in on it as my only defining characteristic.
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A discomforting paradox lay beneath the whole confrontation, one that cut straight across the accepted modern vision of Asians and their adjacency to whiteness: If Liang (and, by extension, all Asian-Americans) enjoyed the protections of whiteness, then how do you explain his conviction?
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Her book Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992) is perhaps the foundational text for modern whiteness studies—the interdisciplinary academic field whose scholars study the way white people engage with and deploy their racial identity to shape the world around them.
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Opinion Columnist With Cory Booker's exit, the Democratic field has lost another minority candidate, and revived the arguments — pressed by Julián Castro before his own exit from the race — that the whiteness of the Iowa electorate explains the increasing whiteness of the Democratic field.
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For years, companies have aggressively marketed whiteness as the de facto beauty standard in Asian cultures.
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We all even have a construct, although it's not really talked about, of what whiteness is.
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This only gives young people of color the opportunity to see themselves as proxies to whiteness.
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It's everything and everywhere; it just is, the way whiteness just is on most college campuses.
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The Kardashian-Jenner family has been accused of stealing Black men, weaponizing whiteness, and appropriating Blackness.
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White privilege and supremacy dictate that whiteness itself is superior, or at the very least neutral.
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It's saying you can simultaneously critique whiteness even while addressing (and enduring) misogyny and fat bias.
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Mr Leap's examination of lyrics also found that masculinity and whiteness had become more closely linked.
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Consider how much worse the GOP's whiteness addiction has grown in just the past four years.
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Trump has argued, often openly, that he views whiteness as a core feature of American identity.
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Whiteness, for all intents and purposes, has been America's default portrayal of itself since its founding.
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It shouldn't shock anyone that whiteness serves as the foundation for what the studio is attempting.
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A bit of Indian blood from her line could be an ornamental exception to pure whiteness.
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He saw the whiteness of Sara's eyes around her pupils, her stare suddenly narrowed and mean.
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Alana Dao is a writer and observer interested in cultural criticism related to food and whiteness.
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The cult of unpainted sculpture continued to permeate Europe, buttressing the equation of whiteness with beauty.
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The girl's whiteness, at once a color and a refusal of color, isn't just a quality.
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Handler added that, in retrospect, there were many moments in which she benefited from her whiteness.
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And she had nothing to fall back on: not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything.
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Their picket of the company HQ was characterized by its non-whiteness and diversity of accents.
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To many, the pristine whiteness of marble statues is the expectation and thus the classical ideal.
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As Dr. King masterfully illustrates, whiteness is only superior with a foil and that is blackness.
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Like many of his contemporaries, Araeen criticizes the West's glorification of whiteness through entertainment and advertising.
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That is, do nonwhite people and institutions ever use whiteness to acquire social and economic value?
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Will this be the last time a tech company is inexcusably unaware of its own whiteness?
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What do white nationalist and white supremacists really want when they call for celebrations of whiteness?
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Moreno Figueroa said that darker skin tones cannot consistently occupy the space of racial privilege — whiteness.
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Rather, it is by implication that Albee tries to establish whiteness, through social and class context.
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Race bending the play would only accentuate its critique of whiteness and make it more powerful.
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There's been a lot of discussion about the whiteness of critics, at this newspaper and elsewhere.
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The movie presents a vision of female empowerment in which whiteness is no longer the standard.
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Eventually, a critical mass of white people will accept the loss of the centrality of whiteness.
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"Joker" is about a comedian, but it doesn't have Tarantino's sense of humor about its whiteness.
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"We see this emphasis of black people to conform to whiteness and to assimilate," Glass explained.
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Cast out of this working man's paradise, Lee is also exiled from the prerogatives of whiteness.
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"For a lot people who are from here, artist is a proxy for whiteness," Werwath said.
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Full lips, not downplayed to lean into idealized whiteness but, rather, emphasized with bright red lipstick.
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The only way to change this was for white working-class people to reject whiteness altogether.
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But how can we think about the powers of whiteness as holding us captive as well?
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Such is the far reach of white supremacy and the desire to remain proximate with whiteness.
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A vision of whiteness was ingrained in the leaders and the arguments of the mainstream movement.
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Whiteness, among those with a title to it, is invoked only in a dance of disavowal.
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At other top universities, the rate of whiteness is comparable though trending higher than the Ivies.
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To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power.
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In Britain, that family is "probably the primary symbol of whiteness that we have," he said.
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And then: It makes me wonder — yet again — was there ever such a thing as whiteness?
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So the way people argued for citizenship or eligibility for citizenship was to prove their whiteness.
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One of the first whiteness critiques to take hold was from Jenna Wortham via the Hairpin.
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D-Centering Whiteness takes the form of a loosely structured, improvisational conversation between the two artists.
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As in the Williams portrait, whiteness—here the whiteness of Horne's turban, which sits like a beacon at the top of the image—is used to underline the blackness in the photograph, black skin and black as a color that leads to black feeling and thought.
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That's the failure that is so crucial to me: not recognizing that white supremacy renders whiteness invisible, and that undoing white supremacy means intervening in that quiet, nefarious process by naming whiteness — by recognizing and pointing out how it works and our own relationship to it.
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VICE spoke to Sandra Kim over the phone to learn more about Toxic Whiteness and its goals.
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"There's a real big issue when it comes to art and gentrification, displacement, and whiteness," she added.
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The urgency is not about others seeing us amidst that whiteness; sometimes, we need to see ourselves.
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If there isn't an inclusion of whiteness, then we're relegated to hoods, basketball courts, fields, and stages.
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The whiteness, maleness and conservatism of his Cabinet proves he's not making any concessions to political correctness.
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Dow gives some of this historical context in the "Whiteness Project" in between interviews with his subjects.
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" This is what Amanda Taub at the New York Times has described as "the crisis of whiteness.
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There have been protests over the whiteness of TV before, as there are over the Oscars today.
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Caramanica Iggy Azalea is not rapping about whiteness, or about anxiety about participation in hip-hop culture.
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The museum is now making an explicit effort to acquire more art that does not center whiteness.
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"I did the project because whiteness is the missing component of the racial discussion," Dow tells Mashable.
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In this clip, the idea that Blackness is an affliction is transferred to whiteness, with hilarious results.
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"The conversation on the implications of whiteness [in Finland] is only beginning now, very slowly," she said.
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Especially since the themes of ballroom competitions often served as commentaries on whiteness and the dominant culture.
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They are people who believe whiteness is a savior, and that it can or will save them.
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Badiou's failure to consider the particular myth of whiteness makes the whole analysis dangerous, perhaps irresponsibly so.
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But one has to wonder: Are the privileges of whiteness promised to economically disadvantaged whites worth it?
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Here's an ugly historical truth about racial fluidity: It tends to flow in one direction -- toward whiteness.
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There will not likely be a return to the whiteness of social dominance and exclusive national identity.
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Did my adoption mean I was supposed to try to aspire to a whiteness beyond my reach?
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These screenshots help posters prove their own whiteness, or serve as an invitation to trash-talk others.
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Over the course of the show, the cultures will slowly overtake the entire whiteness of the room.
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The assemblage of neon whiteness serves to create a false idea of homogeneity — everyone was very white!
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Societies award light-skinned people with beauty and wealth-related power due to their proximity to whiteness.
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Slavery helped to define whiteness and enrich white people through the brutal treatment of mostly black Africans.
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Jews of European descent enjoy many of the privileges of whiteness — especially when they aren't visibly Jewish.
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The renowned scholar W.E.B. Du Bois called this alleged sense of superiority the psychic wages of whiteness.
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It looked at times like a performance of whiteness out of Chicago's past, as when the Rev.
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If you do not identify as a person of color, do you ever think about your whiteness?
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A key feature of this property is the right to exclude others from laying claim to whiteness.
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I stood facing into the wind and made a picture of whiteness—it's nothing but pure white.
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For all the privileges I can pass on to my daughter, there is one I cannot: whiteness.
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Acknowledge that whiteness saved those who looked like you from the vicious barbarity visited upon black people.
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By the way, Leaf is projected to be a 1st round NBA Draft pick ... despite his whiteness.
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Second, even for those Jews who are, our inclusion in the category of whiteness is historically contingent.
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Whiteness, if we don't know it already, is a slippery, shifting set of markers, actions, and institutions.
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Robert Jones, the C.E.O. of the Public Religion Research Institute, put the problem this way in an email: Throughout American history in particular, the question of whiteness has been at the center of these debates, fueled by the fact that social privileges and political rights were tied to whiteness.
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As a biracial child, I felt like I was in the middle of both my whiteness and blackness.
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"They saw skin tone, but not in order to enforce an idea of whiteness or blackness," she says.
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If there's one thing old white men don't like being reminded of, it's their oldness and their whiteness.
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For over 41 years, SNL has reflected the whiteness dominant in mainstream comedy and throughout Hollywood in general.
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There was no behavior you could have that would be ascribed to 'whiteness,' because we couldn't imagine it.
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Sometimes it's being asked time and again what whiteness, capitalism, and inequality have to do with climate change.
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White Girl isn't perfect (its narrative centers on whiteness a little too much), but its rawness is dizzying.
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Whiteness was used as a 'scientific' validation of superiority that enabled the imperialistic and exploitative practices of colonialism.
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I yearned for blue eyes, a certain type of whiteness that would never quite be available to me.
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We know that whiteness is exclusive, and has gone through great and violent lengths to maintain that exclusivity.
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Racialized seeing describes our capacity to register with social violence enacted upon subjects that exist outside of whiteness.
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Man of the Woods isn't a pivot to whiteness, but feels more like a calculated pander to it.
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Especially those who claimed that too much of the black experience in this show was defined by whiteness.
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Neo-Nazism resides at the opposite end of the whiteness spectrum from the slice that Lander's blog highlighted.
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The lack of whiteness in the series, save for its white Australian director, is notable and historically accurate.
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To do so, you would have to condemn the culture of whiteness that produced them—that produced you.
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At least that's the takeaway from the latest installment of award-winning filmmaker Whitney Dow's the Whiteness Project.
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"I believe our whiteness is so tangled up in our relationship to blackness," Dow told Vox last year.
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Fraternities and men associated with fraternities have been able to sidestep repercussion because of wealth, whiteness, and privilege.
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Definitions of color, Morrison says, define what it means to be an American, for belonging adheres to whiteness.
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The same issue printed Angi Neff's powerful letter pointing out the whiteness of the "High School, U.S.A." cover.
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So you're saying that in Detroit, blackness doesn't necessarily have to be defined by oppressive whiteness around it?
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There are also times when I feel like my white partners are trying to overcompensate for their whiteness.
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But the effect will also go beyond that, making the election about whiteness, and the deployment of it.
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One landmark moment like Cox's role in Doubt does not make up for endorsing overwhelming whiteness and maleness.
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There are, no doubt, as many individual experiences of whiteness as there are of blackness in this country.
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But unlike some of his forebears, he says he takes no particular pride in the idea of whiteness.
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She was hoping to observe a certain kind of whiteness — prosperous, unselfconscious — at rest in its natural habitat.
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Whiteness unmediated by the presence of, well, the two of us, a Korean-American and an Indian-American.
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That's because white women benefit from patriarchy by trading on their whiteness to monopolize resources for mutual gain.
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Are our achievements impossible to separate from the benefits that, in this country, have always come with whiteness?
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There are current and former "SNL" cast members who specialize in the parody of entitled yet "endangered" whiteness.
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They also ignore the degree to which blackface is actually little more than a perverse expression of whiteness.
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To face blackface, as it were, head-on, we must address the structure of whiteness that drives it.
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Blackface tells me absolutely nothing about myself, but it does tell me about whiteness, and its grotesque projections.
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Whiteness is an absolute, and it therefore has no spectrum, so black was all we could be anyway.
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What was different about the new, putatively scientific campaign was that even whiteness was no ticket to entry.
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I'm so new to this feeling;with my whiteness I can fadeinto the fascist front if I choose.
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There's a way to watch "Friends" so that its very whiteness — and the associated entitlement — is the problem.
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She had been struck by the contrast between the whiteness of his shirt and his tanned summer skin.
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Are you comfortable talking about your whiteness and how it potentially affects and interacts with other people's identities?
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Political partisanship is now firmly linked to race, with whiteness defining one of the two major political parties.
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Even with the imbalance of empathy, the criticism of the film's perceived unbearable whiteness seemed unfair to me.
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The U.S. social and political landscape would be unrecognizable but for the power of the concept of whiteness.
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Simon Skinner, a Stockholm designer with Afro-Caribbean roots, is challenging the perceived homogeneity and whiteness of Sweden.
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What does it mean when we address it in the context of whiteness, which is Tucker's primary one?
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And because within this imaginary schema, the police protect whiteness, their own violence cannot be read as violence.
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Q: I guess the flip side of that is the way "whiteness" is often discussed in progressive spaces.
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" By implementing Whiteness History Month, organizers hope to "create a nationally renowned culture for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Historically, racial Blackness and the color black have been valued for the extent to which they've contoured whiteness.
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But the Met Gala's themes can be controversial and problematic, ignoring the contributions of marginalized cultures and centering whiteness.
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Whiteness, straightness, cis-ness, and financial stability come with an entitlement to cliched love that is boring at best.
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But it's also saturated, as so much of Babitz's writing is, with a carelessness afforded by whiteness and beauty.
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What matters is that they were participating in this pattern and thus enacting whiteness in a very traditional way.
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I identify as white passing to acknowledge my privilege, and I have been praised for my proximity to whiteness.
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Fortunately for me, I had the privilege of hiding behind my whiteness and masculinity, but I was hiding nonetheless.
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How could he both love me but also think that his contribution to my being — whiteness — was an improvement?
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"Looking around, I feel like this potential jury is steeped in whiteness," he said according to the Star Tribune.
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Aesthetically, racial ambiguity has always been preferred over the assumed neutrality of whiteness and the assumed undesirability of Blackness.
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The most diversity among the crowd is the area between Chuck's Twilight-level whiteness and Nate's (Chace Crawford) tan.
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Yet even as Republican leaders recognized the damage whiteness was doing to the party, they couldn't give it up.
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He was posting nudes without the signifiers of wealth and whiteness that make public nudity acceptable for his family.
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I love my father, but it's an open secret in my family that he's color struck -- drawn to whiteness.
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Part of the next stage of my career is sort of encouraging liberal white people to claim their whiteness.
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Editorial The unrelenting whiteness of the Republican National Convention — perhaps the whitest in 100 years — is stunning in itself.
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But now, by trying to lampoon whiteness, she's made a "white" play: shallow, soporific, and all about itself. ♦
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It's hard to view these figures' desires when racism, whiteness, America, and the "struggle" make them everything but themselves.
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Whiteness has a severe problem with exchange, mostly because the intention is solely to dominate culturally and profit economically.
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White nationalism scares many ordinary white people away from embracing whiteness, which white nationalism makes appear bigoted and terroristic.
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You also want enough bacon to offset the whiteness, to offer contrast and a different kind of salty crunch.
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As America moves away from whiteness as its norm, it's crucial to imagine, and fulfill, our own radical futures.
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The New York Times explains: The fact of Eminem's whiteness, though, also means that he reaches a different listener.
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So you'd want to talk about how colonists defined their whiteness against Native Americans and how that paid off.
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Everything that hurts in BlacKkKlansman feels like a fixture in how liberal elements of whiteness deal with racial injustice.
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It's so tied up in the way that we understand and perceive professionalism and whiteness as more closely aligned.
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Over the history of our big and small screens, audiences have been treated to thousands of variations of whiteness.
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The worlds I mentioned, traveled between for school and home — of blackness and whiteness — seemed so foreign to me.
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And though there have been many critiques of the whiteness of the influencer industry, race is not even acknowledged.
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"No one lives in this room/Without confronting the whiteness of the wall," Maviel sings, sounding cool but tender.
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So instead of trying to import our whiteness, the US President should try letting some of our ideals in.
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In 2019, it's not gender but class and race — especially whiteness — that is the third rail of pop music.
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Some might say that to increase white people's awareness of their whiteness is simply "white guilt" by another name.
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I can't ever totally distance myself from that idea of whiteness because I've benefited from it my entire life.
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In her view, comments like Wynn's about hypervisible trans Gen Z'ers take for granted the whiteness of their subjects.
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On the one hand, this is about the normalization of whiteness — if you're not white, then you're something else.
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I don't think Handmaid's Tale believes that June is privileged because of her whiteness or her position as protagonist.
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Yeah, putting the big heavy sled behind you, couple skis on your feet and walking slowly into whiteness, yes.
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This king also illustrates how the performance of Blackness continues to be used to serve the objectives of whiteness.
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We come from the oppressed, and mostly we have become privileged through the assimilation of many Jews into whiteness.
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The Racial Imaginary Institute: On Whiteness continues at the Kitchen (512 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan) through August 3.
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At a time when the entire American power structure is white, you may not think much about your whiteness.
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NWANDU I definitely identify with, and agree with, the notion that black people know about whiteness better than white people, and that, as someone who has had to both survive it and elicit help from it and is oftentimes surrounded by it, I think I have an understanding of the characteristics of whiteness.
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In 1992, she published "Playing in the Dark," a work of literary criticism that gave ballast to the emerging field of critical whiteness studies, an academic discipline that put much-needed words to America's willful failure to understand "whiteness" as a category of identity with its own twisted histories and need for understanding.
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I know the lifeblood of my conditional whiteness as an educated, upwardly mobile Asian-American lies somewhere in those conflicts.
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There's an overpowering whiteness to the ad, with just a sprinkling of melanin here and there in the crowd scenes.
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The implicit suburban whiteness of these caricatures is both critiqued and reinforced as integral to the devotional teen-girl narrative.
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They stand protecting a stone-walled institution that in the polar tones of the image is glaring in its whiteness.
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To come of age as a gay man in America necessitates identifying with whiteness and constantly measuring yourself against it.
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What's more—they've found that even if you're black in America with a sound bank account, you can't buy whiteness.
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White nationalists feed off the sour fruits of a society where maleness and whiteness is prized as the dominant norm.
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Action is always a risk, especially when you are an activist of color pushing against a society deeply privileging whiteness.
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If there was ever a show to confront the current toxicity of whiteness in our country right now, it's Roseanne.
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We were biologically mixed blood, but it said NEGRO on our birth certificates, with no indication of our mother's whiteness.
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The answer is complicated, but to put it simply, whiteness and patriarchy intersect to form one hell of a drug.
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Vivian's whiteness is an integral part of her narrative, as well as the broader rags-to-riches story she represents.
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It's true that Bamford doesn't actually arrive at a digestible critique of Hollywood sexism, or the whiteness of writers' rooms.
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Racial animus, anti-intellectual populism, and the violent project of protecting whiteness have long been part of American party politics.
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Relations between creole whites and the white English are ambivalent: Rochester is simultaneously aroused and repelled by Antoinette's "impure" whiteness.
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"There is an interesting whiteness traveling from the US to malls [in other countries] featuring white models," Bhatia tells me.
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Liberal-leaning Hollywood is obviously trapped in a cloud of whiteness so thick that it can't spot its own hypocrisies.
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It could also be indirect commentary on whiteness as a racial construct, and that construct's role in Hawaii's colonial history.
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Ms. Diop, dressed in a white polka-dot dress and turban, moves through a world dominated by blinding, literal whiteness.
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" They called their approach "race treason" and on the journal used the motto "Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.
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And it is absurd to think that one black woman could transform an institution so rooted in colonialism and Whiteness.
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It was modern and contemporary elegant, in white, as if to say fancy, hip, and for white people. Whiteness. Power.
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Networks keep taking bets on the same people, contributing to the overwhelming whiteness and maleness of the television creator landscape.
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Unfortunately, this reversal of perspective has tended to seize on the shallower ways in which whiteness functions in American life.
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But that's neither here nor there, where anti-Semitism is concerned, because anti-Semitism concerns itself with Jewishness, not whiteness.
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We are living in incredibly exciting times for LGBTQ rights, but struggling with the black and whiteness of our language.
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He did not launch into a passionate speech in defense of whiteness, like some reverse-Flash version of Atticus Finch.
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Embracing whiteness would seem to enmesh one in a history of slave-owning and all the discrimination flowing from it.
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"I don't think Bernie and Biden are the same, at all, except for their whiteness, gender, and age," Dreith said.
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There is a sizable number of Americans for whom the idea of the nation remains synonymous with whiteness and Christianity.
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A sociological class on whiteness should explain the institutional dynamics of racism and white racial identity, put in historical context.
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What if blackface is clear evidence of the emptiness of whiteness, the hollowness of its being as an identity marker?
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One does, in a world of racist messages, need unbiased facts to form a worldview that does not favor whiteness.
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Conservatives used to exploit whiteness behind the cloak of a coherent ideology weaving personal moral responsibility and public fiscal responsibility.
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In its worst form, the association between Midwesternness and normalcy can become a proxy for whiteness, straightness, and/or maleness.
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What an insightful analysis of the rise of "whiteness" identity concurrent with whites' loss of majority status in this country.
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The majority, however, are white supremacists, who also believe that races form a normative hierarchy with whiteness at the top.
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Sky, sky, sky, until its whiteness shades into autumn mist, which shades into what may be an iced-over lake.
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As you reflect on how you scored on the quiz, how does your whiteness relate to the scores you received?
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"In the art world, the whole idea of blackness in opposition to whiteness, it's just kind of late," Chromati says.
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"In the art world, the whole idea of blackness in opposition to whiteness, it's just kind of late," Chromati says.
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It is simply that they were white and their whiteness gave them a right to be in the United States.
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Further, the vision of a more hybridized whiteness is still a couple decades away, and political minds are notoriously myopic.
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In fact, I'd argue that the Dubois concept of the "wages of whiteness" requires that some groups NOT be white.
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To others, it was a menacing taunt to his predecessor: Look what my whiteness allows me to get away with.
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But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies.
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Then there's Dustin and his refusal of whiteness, partnered with his inability to describe himself beyond a negated racial identity.
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It's jarring when you realize your association with whiteness doesn't free you from the threat of being mistreated by police.
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Healing from Toxic Whiteness is just the latest step in Kim's global movement to break down everyday systemic and racial oppression.
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Although Giacometti is best-known for his bronze sculptures, I found his plaster works more unsettling for their cottage cheese whiteness.
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I fear that whiteness will eat him up in one big mouthful; that he will choose to blend in with it.
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Paste Magazine gave a thorough run-down of the whiteness of the Apatow canon in 2016, and the numbers aren't good.
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If they are, they tend to exist in the past tense, or as tropes that mostly function as counterpoints to whiteness.
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The effective result of the one-drop rule is that blackness, unlike whiteness, is not based on an idea of purity.
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Jenner's whiteness protects her from the problematic narratives reserved for poor women of color who find themselves in the same boat.
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As you cross on the number 83 vaporetto, you see that the site "emphasizes the frosty whiteness of the facade" (Howard).
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" When it comes to reparations, Moore says, "we're not having an abstract conversation about what whiteness and blackness makes you feel.
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When the GOP autopsy was released in March 2013, it immediately received a harsh rebuke from talk radio's kingpin of whiteness.
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And what he found was that there was this idea of a reward of whiteness that was given to white people.
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What I did know was the symbol made me feel assured in my attempted rebellion against my own whiteness and privilege.
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They act like these teachable moments about a darker experience, shifting themselves into social examiners of whiteness, interplays with black life.
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At the very least, by bringing these ideas into public conversation, the Whiteness Project is making sure a conversation is growing.
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Earlier this week, a Twitter conversation about the whiteness (and maleness) of the gay media landscape led to the hashtag #GayMediaSoWhite.
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Fueled by perceived attacks on whiteness, they demanded a bleached homeland, free of the cultures and ethnicities that form America's backbone.
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If he thinks that by acknowledging his whiteness he is exculpating himself from the work of examining race, he is wrong.
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These practices were always implicitly colonialist, because they posited whiteness as a norm, and became explicitly so in the colonial context.
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"Screamin' Jay Hawkins' All-Time Greatest Hits" is most captivating when it probes the origins of Jay's performative relationship with whiteness.
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The neo-Nazis and white supremacists who marched and brawled in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend wore their whiteness like a shield.
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As a black person, my black dollars are going to support whiteness that keeps me and people in my community out.
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I watched these coming-of-age stories because I similarly yearned for my own escape from the stifling whiteness of suburbia.
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Though it's intoxicating to exploit the liberties of whiteness in perpetuity, our ethical obligation is to create a more perfect union.
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While the notion of "blackness" is often at the forefront of such discussions, the idea of "whiteness" is frequently left unexamined.
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As if to say, "Take us back to the time of unmarked whiteness and racially unmarked power" assumed to be white.
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"The reality is that a lot of this has to do not with names but with whiteness," Mr. Giridharadas, 37, said.
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In his paintings, emotion arises in the clashing, congregated, dynamic thrusts, often framing intervals of whiteness or natural surface left open.
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A lot of my feeling about growing up white in this country is about not knowing how to talk about whiteness.
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However, with titles like "Michael Brown, Ferguson, Shedding My Whiteness" and "Nigga Lover" (all 2016), your smile freezes on your face.
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In one work, "The Land Beyond the Sea," Ireland is modeled in relief, adrift in the whiteness of the gallery wall.
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Whiteness is continuously mapped onto her body as one that is severely lacking: in ornamentation, vibrancy, luxury, surgical injection, and implants.
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With "Black Panther," Nyong'o was part of a seismic shift away from whiteness as the unquestioned default in American popular cinema.
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" On this score, American whiteness embodied and embodies an epistemological and ontological divide that it takes as "normative," as "common sense.
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Whiteness is fundamentally a construct, as fragile as the other illusions that the two have made for themselves, including their son.
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Hollywood has a long history of privileging whiteness, from who gets to greenlight movie ideas to whom studios target for consumption.
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That blue background is so perfect, but it really is about her whiteness, too, how starkly white the skin tone is.
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Reflecting on this jubilant sea of whiteness before him, Smith, who is African-American, said he admired the tribalism of it.
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In a report released just a few days ago, Demos showed how much whiteness contributes to the value of one's assets.
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Although immigration policy deals with the external boundaries of the United States, the elevation of whiteness has internal consequences as well.
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Whiteness isn't the show's subject or object so much as it's the social medium through which the characters have to wade.
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Why, according to some research, have economic and social transformations led many people to "anchor themselves more fully in their whiteness"?
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Lovecraft was imaginative and entertaining, the book suggests, but his racism and his whiteness meant he didn't know much about fear.
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Handler is taking a closer look at the ways her whiteness contributes to an otherwise sloppy sketch of race in America.
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And it fits neatly into Trump's political strategy, which depends on his white voters, thinking that their whiteness makes them victims.
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But I'll also note that I don't especially feel the play as being written or addressed to me and my whiteness.
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So history is a device for glorifying masculinity and whiteness, both of which they take to be synonymous with Western civilization?
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Surveys of Black and Latino students as well as non-white faculty reveal the impact of such broad regimes of whiteness.
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If I were indeed a banana, many other Americans probably just saw the yellow part and not the soft whiteness inside.
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" Phillips-Cunningham said the results of the election give white feminists an opportunity to "interrogate whiteness and patriarchy within white communities.
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If you go back to the early 20th century, Italians and Poles and ethnic white folks eventually got assimilated into whiteness.
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While earlier works by W.E.B. Du Bois and other black scholars laid the ground for the development of the field, whiteness studies took off in the 20173s with the publication of Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark, David Roediger's The Wages of Whiteness, and Theodore W. Allen's The Invention of the White Race, among other influential texts.
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They've also benefited from the privilege of being "mediocrity hires," and the lazy assumption that there is an inherent superiority to whiteness.
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Fans there were on the same journey as me, challenging the default of whiteness we had been taught to accept without question.
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More recently, BuzzFeed News has reported that white supremacists are using 23andMe and other DNA testing services to prove their own whiteness.
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In his flight, Newt slips away from the protective confines of whiteness and embraces a kinship of social alienation with fugitive slaves.
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We were Negroes -- later black and then African-American -- and nothing about our mother's whiteness or our own ambiguous bodies altered that.
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And that's because Timberlake's inoffensive male whiteness has allowed him to walk away from situations that punish women and people of color.
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If there is a better visual representation for white cowardice than whiteness engulfed in yellow, I don't know what it could be.
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As for your mom's side, as for your whiteness, there's too much and not enough there to know what to do with.
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He suggested that if I were speaking to Mr. Craig, his "amazing co-star," whiteness would not be a point of interest.
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You've received criticism for the whiteness in your movies, is it something you think consciously about when you're writing and filming now?
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He was weird, he didn't know himself, and his new apparent whiteness undercut the sense that he was a red-blooded adult.
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The historian Matthew Frye Jacobson has suggested that the act was one of our country's first attempts to equate citizenship with whiteness.
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Can we change an orientation toward whiteness that allows us to understand our homegrown hate groups as also serving our unconscious interests?
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In each instance, Ms. Goldberg challenges and expands our ideas of blackness by conjuring up an audible signifier typically identified with whiteness.
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In the video, blackness exposes whiteness and not the other way around; this act of reassembly offers an alternate way of seeing.
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It can't escape how foregone its conclusion can seem, and the curious whiteness of its Mississippi small town frequently just seems weird.
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But the first race riots in the US were all about "whiteness defending itself" (to borrow a phrase from Tressie McMillan Cottom).
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This is a subject that I've rarely seen addressed, perhaps because keeping the silence around it is in fact instrumental to whiteness.
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He referred to the all-encompassing sense of white power so many liberals now also attribute to whiteness as a profound opportunity.
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"The prevalence of white supremacy decreed that women should approach the appearance of northern European whiteness or risk social exile," she says.
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He downplays structural racism and says that attachment to whiteness is not necessarily about power or a desire to be on top.
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Barack Obama represented a fast-approaching future in which whiteness is not synonymous with power, in which power is more widely shared.
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People treated you differently because of your proximity to whiteness, meaning you came off as more classy, rich, educated, well put together.
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She felt heard, because he accepted and performed the whiteness she felt inherently belonged to him — he was no longer skirting it.
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"David was really the key for us, the artist who had consistently questioned whiteness and the white power structures," Iles told me.
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Right, ancient Greece and Rome were actually quite diverse and the concept of "whiteness" didn't have much meaning thousands of years ago.
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I wanted to find that source, some quote about the unavoidable colonial spirit or about the unbearable whiteness of that narrative lens.
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Why must we depict Black characters as eventually reconciling their contempt for whiteness with a prevailing, individual romance that conquers that disdain?
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The police are thus structurally placed to protect whiteness against violence, where violence is the imminent action of the black male body.
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You may not think of your whiteness as having to do with anything except regretting the role of racism and so on.
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A college in Portland, Oregon is closely examining what it means to be white as part of its upoming Whiteness History Month.
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The Racial Imaginary Institute wants to "make visible that which has been intentionally presented as inevitable," to disrupt the "bloc" of whiteness.
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" The site's ethnicity section also allowed users to get curiously specific with their particular strain of whiteness: "Scandinavian/Mediterranean/Eastern European/Western European.
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Season 2 delves into the more insidious parts of racial politics, like alt-right Twitter and the ingrained whiteness of university secret societies.
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That problem cuts to the core of Ghost in the Shell's vision of humanity's future, where "absence of race" aligns uncomfortably with whiteness.
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Hostility toward immigrants and refugees is growing in both nations, suggesting that this vitriol against "outsiders" is symptomatic of toxic and threatened whiteness.
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And no matter how well-intentioned, if you live in a place where whiteness remains centralized, the conversation will continue to be exhausting.
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Macklemore got exhausted with rapping about whiteness for nine minutes, and navigating a career in which "white" was always placed before his occupation.
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You worry that certain correlates of whiteness — Methodism, guns, the name Nikki — are needed to compensate for your lack of the actual thing.
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This is all complicated by the way mainstream representations of whiteness and masculinity intertwine to marginalize the desirability of queer men of color.
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The not-so-subtle message, both within the industry and in the culture at large, has been that whiteness is always the default.
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This past September, the Racial Imaginary Institute, led by Claudia Rankine, released the 6th edition of its journal on the topic of Whiteness.
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They highlight problems that might otherwise go unnoticed by a public that still sees whiteness and maleness as the default in many contexts.
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Newt Knight rejected the seductive allure of white supremacy during a time when whiteness ensured social power and authority over all black people.
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But it's also a show about whiteness in America, a subject that is usually treated as a vague default in most other entertainment.
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Only white supremacists will use them because by putting a white skin tone on your emoji, you're celebrating your whiteness in some way.
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It insinuates that part of the art's value is its ability to function properly, in spite of whiteness or any other existing force.
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The player can offer to help her, to "use your whiteness and maleness and position as protagonist ," to deliver the letter for her.
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Trump's slogan doesn't really evoke America's past greatness but its past whiteness, and this is exactly what Lake is protesting in brilliant fashion.
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It was not to say that white judges, by virtue of their whiteness, are incapable of standing in judgment of certain minorities impartially.
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I liked my cloak of whiteness as a kid, even if it was occasionally yanked from me with cutting jokes or knowing smiles.
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Political and social phenomena, from Barack Obama's presidency to the Black Lives Matter movement, are making whiteness even more salient to white Americans.
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This is a young black kid going to a predominantly white institution, so of course the narrative is under the lens of whiteness.
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And she was able to do that in part because her whiteness and her wealth gave her sex tape a modicum of respectability.
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The prevailing belief today is that no internal experience can separate a white person from whiteness, with all its material and political benefits.
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White male artists make work about their point of view all day long without having to justify any broader connection to general whiteness.
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Cannon's art is not about identity politics, but the layers and contradictions of self-representation in a society that valorizes assimilation and whiteness.
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Why does this paper — one that conservatives boast is the country's most "liberal" publication — not recognize its own continued dominating gaze of whiteness?
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The whiteness of surviving Greek and Roman marbles, their original polychromy lost, became de rigueur for Western three-dimensional figuration in subsequent centuries.
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But over the last eight years something very important has emerged in the way race gets discussed in America: the foregrounding of whiteness.
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This is less about being validated by whiteness than it is about having our own excellence archived in our country's most esteemed records.
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Well, as the dark art of white supremacy worked its inexorable magic, Irish and Italians enjoy the full faith and credit of whiteness.
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A performative anti-whiteness is common among white lefties seeking a rhetorical cudgel against blue-collar Archie Bunkers and popped-collar frat bros.
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From Odita's perspective, the flat surface of his paintings further suggests a "ground of whiteness" that exists prior to the application of color.
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The fact that both figures are white is not incidental — it points to Wolfson's fixation on whiteness in his continuing work about violence.
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Jordan Casteel paints the street life of Harlem and its black residents, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer the quirky, and often decrepit, trappings of whiteness.
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"Pink-washing" whiteness by pretending other racial groups aren't capable of addressing issues like homophobia and transphobia is no longer a tenable narrative.
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" Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards spent time meditating on her own whiteness while recording "I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life.
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The tortured minstrel face embodied the assertion that blackness was grotesque in itself because it could never achieve the mythical ideal of whiteness.
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White voters have grown more defensive of their whiteness and afraid of minorities, tempting them to see democracy as a zero-sum struggle.
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Today, once again, the Republican Party is fumbling another opportunity to appeal to Asian-Americans who are willing to align themselves with whiteness.
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It's not the cheeky, subversive gaze that they turn on the Australian men's rubgy team: This is the familiar, objectifying gaze of whiteness.
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A current project of the institute is a multimedia exploration of whiteness, a concept that the films here either foreground or pointedly ignore.
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States and localities with significant black populations are beginning to recognize the whiteness of the teacher corps as an obstacle to student achievement.
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He trumpeted Social Security and Medicare — programs associated with whiteness and white recipients — and slammed Obamacare, which disproportionately benefited black and Hispanic Americans.
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The eventual whiteness of German-Americans saved them from being thrown en masse into internment camps during World War II, unlike Japanese-Americans.
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Even Mr. Kimmel remarked on the whiteness of the crowd, hard to achieve in today's Toronto, one of the world's most multicultural cities.
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Evangelical Christianity in the United States always has privileged whiteness above all else, to justify the divinely-sanctioned use of bodies of others.
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The Court acknowledged that Ozawa's character was irreproachable, and also that he had a paler complexion than many people whose whiteness went uncontested.
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Intersectionality is also at play here; Lula's whiteness makes it possible for her to achieve empathy and gain power despite being a murderer.
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Others increased their reputations through their associations, comportment, and military service, situating themselves closer to whiteness along Spain's vast colored spectrum of castes.
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Yet, the point was not upward mobility for Latin America's colored subjects, but to police the boundaries of whiteness while preserving white authority.
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His Christian nationalism has so thoroughly linked whiteness, (evangelical Protestant) Christianity, and "Americanness" that anyone who falls outside these categories is rendered suspicious.
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Why must we depict Black characters as eventually reconciling their contempt for whiteness with a prevailing, individual love that conquers that reasonable disdain?
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America, by implication, is perfectly happy to change the definition of whiteness if it means the country can remain a majority-white nation.
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And very quickly, that first wave of criticism was greeted by a second wave, composed primarily of think pieces about the show's whiteness.
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How does one, through the already-slippery languages and modes of contemporary visual art, attempt to disrupt a phenomenon as pervasive as whiteness?
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This is how it has always been for immigrant populations who believe, rightly or wrongly, that they are on a quick march toward whiteness.
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Black celebs like Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield have thrown shots on Twitter, but other than that, the conversation has been dominated by whiteness.
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Calling myself black feels more accurate than saying I'm white… Whiteness has always felt foreign to me, for as long as I can remember.
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I came to realize that there is a whole sector of society in which the privilege of whiteness and maleness didn't really trickle down.
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"Thai craze for whiteness rears its ugly head again," a prominent social-media commentator who goes by the name of Kaewmala posted on Twitter.
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There are many people whose stories we miss out on because our society teaches us to question realities that go against maleness and whiteness.
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People and pages are often called out for fetishizing the mixing of races or only valuing ethnic minorities when they are combined with whiteness.
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Whenever I would question the whiteness of these spaces and how strategies didn't take race into account, I would be met with uncomfortable silences.
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In this way, it's a tidy metaphor for the way whiteness — and expectations for what writing should sound like — still dominates the writing world.
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"It connects with the idea of hygiene, this idea that whiteness and cleanliness go together and that black or brownness are dirty," says Hunter.
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Rereading it now, it's clear that I was in the middle of unlearning some of the lessons of whiteness I'd grown up surrounded by.
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What's terrifying is that more than half of white women chose their whiteness over their womanhood & put someone like Trump in the White House.
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Higginbotham's latest book in the series, Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness, is the first children's picture book to break down white supremacy.
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A mostly underground economy fueled by sex and money is easily juxtaposed with traditional standards of whiteness, from political elitism to mundane day jobs.
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Outside of popular culture all synonyms for "blackness" in the dictionary are nasty and negative, while every synonym for "whiteness" is positive and beautiful.
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As long as we are peering through the lens of whiteness our future will look like our present -- which looks frighteningly like our past.
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" SH: "For me, being queer is an active choice — to reject patriarchal masculinity, to object whiteness, to challenge gender norms, and to celebrate femininity.
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The wines in question are a pinot noir and a merlot from Chile, a shiraz from Australia, and, despite its whiteness, a French muscat.
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This felt like an easy way out of the more complicated issues that Diana's whiteness and privilege raised for Cheryl and her friend Tamara.
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In this respect you can hardly do better than Bouguereau and the values imbedded in his art — idealism, whiteness, an effete notion of taste.
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Beyond informed and diverse representation, Jayanth wanted to ensure that players felt the weight of their own character Jean Passepartout's western whiteness and maleness.
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Their lived experiences reveal a schism between their skin colors and the collective self-perception of their homeland as a homogenous expanse of whiteness.
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The egg, oil, and vinegar emulsion is a symbol not only for blandness but for whiteness and all its attendant cultural appropriation and entitlement.
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"Many academics today study whiteness," Adam Sabra, a history professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a longtime friend, said by email.
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The media hysteria over the blackness of the latest member into the family demonstrates how taken for granted the whiteness of the monarchy is.
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Defining features of whiteness including watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Birdman and the Kentucky Derby, owning a flash-light and using Verizon Wireless.
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The more you research, the clearer it becomes: Germanness is about whiteness, as it's the racist assumption of a shared white experience and supremacy.
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As if our entire culture is not already centered on a very particular version of whiteness that many white people don't even inhabit anymore.
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To all white people who are offended at being lumped in with whiteness as a whole: this is not about you as an individual.
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I have an upfront, sort of in-the-trenches knowledge of white people's trying to avoid their whiteness and replace it with something else.
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It has come home to assert its supremacy, its whiteness, its right to be ugly and foul-mouthed and to get rewarded for it.
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How does Nova navigate her romantic feelings toward Calvin while understanding the ways in which his whiteness continues to harm her and her people?
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The point about the oppressive whiteness of beauty standards was overwhelmed by the odd visual spectacle — two women competing to get harassed the most.
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During Black History Month in Indianapolis, Indiana University-Purdue University continues its "White Racial Literacy Project" to address racial inequalities — including "whiteness" on campus.
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" Not because she actually was Black, but because, as she writes, "There's a kind of Blackness that is defined by its opposition to whiteness.
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All of this might seem counterintuitive to people, since whiteness has always been such a reliable source of value and power in this country.
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When white nationalist and white supremacist movements call to celebrate whiteness, they claim or imply that white people are under threat from nonwhite people.
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Related, what are some other topics that a curriculum or program on the history of the category of whiteness and its consequences would cover?
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Within this system, who is "white" is also "rich" — that is, whiteness works as a space of desired privilege, an aspiration of social belonging.
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The one group that was never allowed to cross the line into whiteness was African-Americans, he said — the long-term legacy of slavery.
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Throughout there is a kind of insistence on the (black) body as a kind of counterpoint to this ideology, this enchantment that is whiteness.
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Often, when people discuss whiteness in Portland, they say that there are aren't any black people, which erases the black people that live there.
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These are all reminders that in the minds of many Americans, the region where I have lived all my life is synonymous with whiteness.
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Nevertheless, I've spent my entire adult life having barely-educated white people question my qualifications and would gladly take on the burden of whiteness.
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"There is something wild-eyed about whiteness right now, at this moment in history," Imani Perry writes in "Breathe," a letter to her sons.
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By their nature, whiteness and masculinity work to render themselves invisible, so that what they modify we experience as a default, unraced and ungendered.
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Despite her reaction, Yank can't get over Mildred's whiteness—her unstained skin seems unreal amid the murk and grief that have overrun his mind.
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In previous versions of macOS, you were able to make your dock and menu bar darker, but other interface elements blinded you with whiteness.
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Whiteness may not have been on the filmmakers' minds when they made "Joker," but it is the hidden accomplice that fosters the violence onscreen.
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In a landmark essay in critical legal scholarship, Cheryl Harris argues that in the United States, whiteness functions as a kind of a property.
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Striving to be a rapper in this city better known for indie rock, roots music and "Portlandia"-level whiteness was "super depressing," he said.
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He directed his readers' attention to acts of horror with a precise command of language and an uncontainable appetite for allegory, especially about whiteness.
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But I'm not sure that "of color" is significantly better than "non-white," because we're still defining people against a default of whiteness, right?
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Back in 2014, media outlets, including this one, pointed out the overwhelming blondeness (and whiteness) of the women at Fox News at the time.
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But more than anger, I increasingly feel awe: the whiteness of protagonism I grew up with, like many generations before me, is finally changing.
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But does the fact that whiteness is no longer an unequivocal badge of privilege have any consequences for the systemic persistence of black disadvantage?
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Her remarks on blackface costumes back in October did not shock those who recalled her statements on the whiteness of Santa Claus and Jesus.
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And if it's perceived as an attack, that's because whiteness and maleness, and not class, have come to define the white working class. 19.
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Before Irish immigrants were allowed into the Anglo-Saxon fold of 'good' whiteness, they were cast out and struggled on the US's east coast.
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A series of lawsuits pressed the question, forcing judges to pin down a definition of whiteness that excluded Chinese, Japanese, and Asian Indian immigrants.
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At my school, I learned very early on how to navigate white institutions, being around a culture of wealth and a culture of whiteness.
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Sandra Kim, founder and executive director of the online magazine and educational platform Everyday Feminism, has one solution, and it's called Healing from Toxic Whiteness.
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And the [Healing from Toxic Whiteness] programs are for folks who are getting conscious enough and are finding it difficult to know what to do.
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I'm not sure how you are with other artists, but generally, how many white artists get asked about how their whiteness plays into their work?
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But no matter where we fall in life, we're still affected by the lasting (and ongoing) effects that whiteness has had on black people everywhere.
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When making was imported from Silicon Valley, I'm told by Chinese makers, so too was America's tech-bro culture, which overwhelmingly rewards whiteness and maleness.
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During the 20th century, both black- and white-owned companies adopted language that focused on class and social standing, rather than whiteness, as the ideal.
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It's infuriating that country music — a genre of music born from the creativity of black folks in the South — is almost exclusively associated with whiteness.
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Given that he's still the one person capable of taking up the Iron Fist mantle, it's hard to decouple his whiteness from his elevated position.
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Queenie's story — her dissatisfaction with the overwhelming whiteness of her coven, her complex relationship with a resurrected slave owner — was cogent, humane, complex and compelling.
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Space, at least when it comes to places where celebrities go to the live in the West, almost always also includes a cocoon of whiteness.
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Dow encourages all those who interact with the Whiteness Project, online and off, to share their thoughts and join the conversation with the hashtag #WhitenessProject.
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From canary yellows and ruddy scarlet to eggshell blue, the primary hues punch through the eddies of thick whiteness that often hovers over the islands.
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A much larger group of whites, 30-40% of the total, feel a strong attachment to their whiteness and yet do not express racial bias.
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Whether you believe that Swift deserved to score the AOTY award or not, the rapper is making real, valid points about how whiteness is rewarded.
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Artnews reported that Ms. Molesworth had criticized the overwhelming whiteness of the MOCA board during a January talk at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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It's a system in which whiteness and wealth are signifiers of purity and moral superiority, while blackness and sex work are impure and morally inferior.
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In her trademark ultra-chill style, she rants about interracial dating, the whiteness of Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop newsletter and paying off $65,000 in student loans.
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The relentlessness of the snowstorm and the abundance of dramedies about life in New York were running into a numbing blur, blinding me with whiteness.
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This is not a matter of identity politics but of the layers and contradictions of self-representation in a society that valorizes assimilation and whiteness.
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"I happened upon this article and it is just *chef kiss* peak whiteness," one person who was accidentally exposed to this caucasity posted on Twitter.
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The poet Claudia Rankine is using her MacArthur genius grant to explore whiteness and how an Ohio prison explodes the idea that blackness equals criminality.
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Hemon understands these issues, too, having grappled over the course of his career with his maleness, his whiteness, and his yearning for a vanished motherland.
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"Cargo Cult" reminds us that the apex of beauty in the United States is whiteness—a dangerous idea that we are exporting to other countries.
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On politics, she wrote an essay shortly after the election of Donald Trump for the New Yorker titled "Mourning for Whiteness," calling out white supremacy.
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Accepting Fremont's whiteness as a state of nature rather than a constructed and enforced reality is to accept the racist myth of rural white homogeneity.
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My fascination (okay, borderline obsession), with the whiteness of all the teeth surrounding me was only exacerbated every evening when I looked in the mirror.
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Candice awakes in a bed surrounded by sterile whiteness and the noise of machines beeping for attention and it's late in the morning, or something.
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The terror against people of color, especially African- and Native Americans, has always centralized whiteness in defense of itself in its persecution of the other.
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When Black Performers Use Their 'White Voice' "Sorry to Bother You" is part of a long tradition of black artists critiquing whiteness through vocal imitation.
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In his 2000 comedy special "Killin' Them Softly," Dave Chappelle uses observational humor to point out how whiteness translates to an exclusive version of freedom.
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"Memory, time, silence, words, and whiteness" were the essence of Cha's art, wrote the art historian Moira Roth, as they are of Ms. Wu's homage.
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Though white trans women (such as myself) also have to worry about violence, we are insulated by our whiteness and often by our income levels.
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Will we continue to have blackness and whiteness locked in this dialectic, and will we continue imagining our being existing somewhere between these two poles?
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Do his whiteness, upper-middle-class background and Harvard and Oxford degrees nullify his experience as a minority and undercut his status as a trailblazer?
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When Frank, now the editor of The Charleston News and Courier, encounters the black educator John Langston, he mistakes the man's light skin for whiteness.
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" He is bothered by white friends who "flagellate themselves, sincerely or performatively, apologizing for their 'whiteness,' as if they were somehow born into original sin.
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The Thread RE: FIRST WORDS Laila Lalami wrote about the identity politics of whiteness, as white people begin to see themselves as a distinct group.
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The 2017 ratings dip after the casting of the first black Bachelorette, Rachel Lindsay, did nothing to help chip away at the brand's aggressive whiteness.
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Watching those spectacles, I wondered why, if whiteness was supposed to be rendered powerless on a black-owned stage, it was still dictating the action.
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And while I knew that it was impossible to marry "blackness" or "whiteness" in the abstract, that knowledge did not entirely put me at ease.
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I've been thinking about whiteness, and how to just be honest about it, and why it's so important to be able to talk about it.
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And I can only make this critique of visibility and individual representation because whiteness opens doors for me that would otherwise have remained firmly shut.
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Ms. Rankine was awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant last year, and said that she planned to use part of that prize money to explore whiteness.
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Kenneth Lonergan's "Manchester by the Sea" is about a working-class white man's tragedy, and his whiteness is as crucial to his identity as class.
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Movie critics, who are largely white and male (see the numbers!), seem stubbornly reluctant to engage with race, at least as it pertains to whiteness.
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Columbia has the lowest whiteness rate among the Ivies at 40 percent, one of the lowest in the country outside the University of California system.
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By the 220006s, Spain expanded the practice of selling such licenses to those who could show that they and their family of origin approximated whiteness.
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Ligon spoke meaningfully of having to "unlearn" that art meant whiteness and of his frustration with artists of color being left out of the canon.
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" Whether challenging whiteness or misogyny within the black community, McMillan Cottom succeeds in her mission to tell "evocative stories that become a problem for power.
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Because if one needs therapy to correct a disappeared desire for whiteness as a result of intense and constant othering, is that relationship worth it?
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"What is cool is that with a really low amount of material, you can achieve a high intensity of reflection and whiteness," Vignolini told Hyperallergic.
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It imagines a future without double consciousness, where they don't have to look at themselves through both their own eyes and the eyes of whiteness.
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To get around this problem, Hawley decided to measure polling on three different metrics that were more about identification with whiteness than anti-minority sentiments.
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On the surface, I could understand the basic tenets of whiteness to include a need for validation that I was inherently good, productive, and successful.
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Whiteness is so embedded into our political, social, and artistic lives, it might not be clear what the most effective forms of dismantling it are.
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The naturally white outer shell, which dissolved over time to reveal a golden center, is symbolic of Ouyang's search for an identity separate from whiteness.
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Since his 2012 crash landing into the pop consciousness, Macklemore has always been careful to make it clear that he understands the benefits that whiteness provides.
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But if they end up watching this episode, alt-righters would be disappointed to learn that the whiteness of their beloved statues is but a myth.
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Nothing about these situations feel like they're told through a veil of blackness or whiteness—like you're assumed to understand something based on who you are.
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Her nonfiction works included an essay collection, a book of literary criticism titled "Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination" (1992) and editing anthologies.
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Men from both groups have sued over beard bans, but a corporate sector that has historically normalized whiteness and "othered" minorities continues to prohibit facial hair.
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While it ultimately prompted discussions on white privilege and the whiteness of the Grammys, but at first, most of the shots were aimed at Macklemore himself.
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In a nation where whiteness and white people were the principal measure for good, good citizenship, and good governing, the idea of black rule was untenable.
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The study acknowledged that whiteness, Republicanism, and racial resentment all tend to correlate, so maybe this really reflects that partisan beliefs, not racial resentment, drive birtherism.
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Indie rock possesses an undeniable proximity to whiteness, and its fans often seem to demand a certain degree of cute, quirky harmlessness from their female singers.
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Growing up white in a country that privileges whiteness dooms white people to this fuckery, even as it exonerates them from any blowback stemming from it.
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Rather less attention has been paid to the appetite for a different kind of identity politics—one centred around whiteness and championed by President Donald Trump.
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I wrote last month about how the industry's racism could have a bearing on the general whiteness of the group of people publicly condemning Harvey Weinstein.
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However, a closer study of visible light would reveal that each beam actually contains a spectrum of colour that, when combined, creates the appearance of whiteness.
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Here, Mapplethorpe is not just a famous photographer, he becomes metonymic for whiteness, for any other unapologetic white gay male, thirsty to make blackness his own.
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Part of what's brought them to this identification of politicized whiteness is what's brought so-called minorities to their racial politics: oppression and injustice and anger.
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Artist, 30, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, said their exhibit looks at the whiteness of digital interfaces and centers on the victims of anti-black violence.
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Education Innovation When Catharine Bond Hill walked the campus of Williams College as an undergraduate in the mid-1970s, the "whiteness" of the campus was apparent.
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MK: Just as we want to interrogate whiteness, we want to interrogate heterosexuality and masculinity because they are the norm against which everybody else is measured.
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He keeps most of the decades humming with queerness and problematized whiteness, inventing characters and ghosts in his stories to dramatize the issues of the day.
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If Will & Grace normalized talk of gay existence to some homophobes, it did so by sweetening the medicine with whiteness, lots of money, and nice clothes.
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The idea of whiteness as quantifiable and, moreover, essential to the notion of what it means to be an American ignores virtually all of American history.
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But whiteness and queerness (especially gayness) have proven throughout recent history to make for an especially exploitable combination for real estate developers to raise property values.
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Between events, be sure to pop upstairs to the Kitchen's gallery, which is hosting the companion group exhibition organized by the Racial Imaginary Institute, On Whiteness.
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She vividly remembers how one of her first managers in Los Angeles told her to stop saying she was Mexican, and instead hide behind her whiteness.
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With a Loud Ovation, Baseball Shows Its Whiteness Josh Hader was showered with applause by his hometown fans after apologizing for old racist and homophobic tweets.
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In this context, having the state's signature product having a brand focused on a purity rooted in the whiteness of its producers is worth thinking about.
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The so-called flyover states have long been an avatar for the real America — small towns, country music, conservatism, casseroles and amber waves of grain. Whiteness.
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It's a very different thing to use that opportunity to crack open the edifice of whiteness, if you will, and bring necessary voices into that space.
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Accordingly, whiteness and wrongness have become interchangeable — the high ground is now accessible only by way of "allyship," which is to say silence and total repentance.
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This is disheartening at a time when more people are calling attention to the overwhelming whiteness of cultural institutions, and the climate of exclusivity that creates.
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Refocusing black discourse from black subjects to whites, Baldwin made an early contribution to what would become whiteness studies at the end of the twentieth century.
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I stood for a few minutes and felt my thoughts drift, staring at the whiteness of the water as it bled out into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Whiteness under threat is a common theme, especially on Carlson's show, during which he often laments the mistreatment of white people and the influx of foreigners.
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Like Ellison's Optic White, which was made brilliant by the addition of black, whiteness in the horse is dependent on the existence of a darker hue.
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" In an essay on the Op-Ed page, Tamara Winfrey Harris wrote: "Racial identity cannot be fluid as long as the definition of whiteness is fixed.
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Ms. Rankine is warm but firm, starting with small talk about why people have dyed their hair before asking about the connections between blondness and whiteness.
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But they slowly assimilated into whiteness, creating an even more substantial majority — a bloc that left everybody else on the far side of the moat, minoritized.
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Trying to understand the very flawed concept of race and whiteness itself is hugely empowering to help other people think about this stuff in different ways.
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"Dark Matters", an anthology zine, grew out of the class "Dark Matters: Blackness, Surveillance, and the Whiteness of the Screen," taught by American Artist at sfpc.
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He also critiqued the notable whiteness of the titular fictional version of London's famously upscale neighborhood, despite the multicultural flavor of the real Notting Hill. THIS!!!
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But I think that it's perfectly proper to insist that essentialism about whiteness is as absurd as essentialism about blackness or any of these other identities.
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"I don't think there's a way to talk about this election without acknowledging that, as a group, white women chose whiteness over everything else," says Ortberg.
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Perhaps because she is yet to gain much publicity outside of Spain, less has been made of her whiteness within a predominantly black and brown scene.
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"Otisha," taken in Kingston, Jamaica, tells a different story, one of a blackness that subverts classical notions of beauty-as-object only to be worn by whiteness.
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White Girl made headlines at its Sundance premiere for lots of sex and lots of drugs, but whiteness — and the immunity it begets — is at its core.
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Let's work to decenter whiteness as the standard for beauty, perspective, and human experience in television, and then we wouldn't have to worry about making diversity history.
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I think women's media companies should acknowledge that fashion has a history that's flawed: placing a high value on youth, whiteness, thinness, cheap labor, and heteronormative perspectives.
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I think that there are numerous examples of white rappers that don't want to talk about politics, that don't want to bring up their whiteness in interviews.
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Later, Newt's early experiences as a deserter reinforce the perils of social marginalization, and trace a path away from his reliance on whiteness as a social category.
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Being "white" has had the highest rewards and yet the most precarious boundaries -- people of Irish and Italian descent were included in whiteness only 150 years ago.
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You only need to listen to the buzzing of the disgruntled Beyhive (myself included) for an example of how whiteness typically wins out on music's biggest night.
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There's this idea of whiteness that people try to put on that's represented in the movie, that discussion is represented through the discussion of the white voice.
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"It takes a special kind of whiteness to take a Maya Angelou line about racism, mangle it, and apply it to asking for a raise," she said.
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After a year and half of working together, and my frequently bringing up race and racism in our sessions, she had named her whiteness on her own.
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"Anytime I'm looking at scripts, I'm looking at lines, I want to show young brown boys they don't need to hide in whiteness or blackness," he said.
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I could see it, in fact, still, the turbulent whiteness massing and gathering, the wave whose inability to stop itself rising and breaking formed its inescapable destiny.
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The possession of whiteness makes belonging possible, and to lack that possession is not to belong, to be defined as something lesser, even something not fully human.
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Your wife is white, and you've talked about how that relationship has informed your view of how white people get to choose a narrower slice of whiteness.
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Instead, it was part in parcel of a larger theoretical framework that associated whiteness with civilization and saw blacks (and other non-white groups) as innately deficient.
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Part of the answer leads us into deeper dilemmas of whiteness, colonial self-hate, and race relations in Latin America and among Latinxs in the United States.
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Even Williams' bold tennis outfits and "beads that jangle when her braids swing" can be viewed as a deliberate rejection of the demands of whiteness, O. implies.
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The sentiment among white nationalists has little changed since the Civil War: Whiteness is a valuable commodity, essential to the very nature of American and European life.
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At no point during this conversation did either of my parents contest the need to apologize for both the fight and calling that boy's whiteness to attention.
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When people in Charlottesville walk the streets chanting, "You will not replace us," they're just reinforcing the idea that whiteness is itself a possession to be protected.
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Martin's attempt to sound white and the operator's reaction shrewdly emphasize how the perception of whiteness grants a measure of access often closed to people of color.
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That institutions that privilege exhibitions of Western art, and pay top dollar for such art to enter their already very white collections, are discriminating against her whiteness?
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It sounds like "a force of nonwhite people who are coming and they are working as a coalition to overturn white people and whiteness," Richeson said, laughing.
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If you use the exclusive version of whiteness — in which anyone who's part anything is perforce not white — then you get a majority-minority America by 2044.
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Much of the sharpest examination comes, as it always has, from people of color, who have spent centuries acutely aware of how the force of whiteness operates.
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My reasoning was simple: The expression makes it seem as if all people who appear white and non-Hispanic benefit from their presumed whiteness in all settings.
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The lure of Antarctica, she wrote, was in part the continent's all-encompassing whiteness, reminiscent of the sterile white walls in the many hospitals of her youth.
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Critic's Notebook What the film wants to say — about mental illness or class divisions in society — is not as interesting as what it accidentally says about whiteness.
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But it's primarily the piece's whiteness, in combination with its flatness, that gives it the illusionistic malleability of a painting without relinquishing the solid presence of sculpture.
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White racial illiteracy refers to the ways that whiteness, white people and white institutions are portrayed as neutral or invisible in matters of race and racist conflict.
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White feminists may have good intentions but fail to see the many, nuanced ways of promoting and achieving gender equality from perspectives other than cis-gendered whiteness.
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But it's also, as the title suggests, about the complexities of whiteness — in the Cuban American community in Miami, in Nebraska, and in America as a whole.
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So if you're the kind of white person who's never really interrogated your whiteness, it's sometimes more useful to learn what that looks like from the outside.
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Until we begin to be brutally honest about what is happening in our parish — what is happening in America — it will always be a sea of whiteness.
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Clarke and Tomlinson also set up what's called an interactive term, a way of testing how multiple variables interact, between a county's whiteness and its education level.
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In that sense, their acceptance often feels to me like a reluctance from some women to cut loose investments: in men, in wealth, in whiteness, in colonialism.
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Without an understanding of Chinatown's cultural movements, historical and current, we risk equating whiteness and gentrification with artistic creativity, and Asian immigrants and longstanding residents with victimhood.
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Riverdale is a town dominated by whiteness, save for the shady principal, the shady mayor (who is also Josie's mom), and the quaint old timer running the diner.
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"White women benefit from patriarchy by trading on their whiteness to monopolize resources for mutual gain," Alexis Grenell wrote at the New York Times after the Kavanaugh vote.
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"The lack of representation of Asian Americans and other people of color in the media and positions of power reinforces associations between American identity and whiteness," she said.
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Then there are the critics — the accounts are often called out for fetishizing the mixing of races or only valuing ethnic minorities when they are combined with whiteness.
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Since 2013, (Robinson) has been working on project titled #WHITEMANINMYPOCKET, in which she calls into question racial constructs, and especially the place of Whiteness in conversations about race.
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When you conduct a Google Image search for "person," you don't see very many people of color, which perpetuates the normalization of whiteness and reinstills biases around race.
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They immediately jump into citizens arrest mode, playing the role of deputy doin' too much, using their whiteness and its proximity to police protection as a weapon. pic.twitter.
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At a time when white evangelical identity and whiteness itself were all but synonymous (an identification that only intensified through the decades), Graham cleaved that lazy political identification.
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Cordova doesn't fancy himself an ethnographer, but "making the invisible visible" is something he is very good at — especially when it comes to telling stories that decentralize whiteness.
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At the same time, Chinese culture is inaccessible to you, as foreign as the ability to fully assimilate to whiteness, because you have not grown up in it.
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At the same time that "whiteness" is being elevated as an identity on the alt-right and interrogated on the progressive left, its material reality is increasingly fragmented.
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Although white supremacist ideals did not confer material benefits to poor whites, they did confer psychological benefits in what Du Bois referred to as the wages of whiteness.
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Of course, in a system that commonly measures professional compatibility by proximity to whiteness, it's no wonder that many people of color aren't seen as a cultural fit.
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Your whiteness has become a burden too heavy for you to carry, so you outsource it to a vile political figure who amplifies your most detestable private thoughts.
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When I brush my teeth with the Kopari, my breath is fresh, my teeth squeak when I touch them, and I've even seen some increased whiteness over time.
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He grew up in a black neighborhood where he developed such a kinship with black culture that he walked away from his whiteness and became black by choice.
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Defined by stark whiteness, cool steel and lustrous colored plastic, a big part of its charm was how cheerfully divorced it was from the country's beloved ancient past.
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"Woke" feels a little bit like Macklemore rapping in one of his latest tracks about how his whiteness makes his rap music more acceptable to other white people.
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The crowd cheers and dances––until she, a white woman, raps the N-word and the collective whiteness of the bar cringes and shrinks back to their seats.
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Richard Kraft, All the Yellow and Red Cards issued to Donald Trump from January 20, 2017 to January 19, 2018, in The Whiteness Issue, The Racial Imaginary Institute.
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Butler has constantly offered sub-par work that has garnered him a level of financial security and fame, ensconced in the uncompromising safety of whiteness and male privilege.
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With his post, Lil B was pointing out that black people don't enjoy the same safety net that whiteness and supposedly "neutral" statistics provide when talking about race.
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" It also aims to "discuss ways to challenge white racism and white supremacy toward promoting an anti-racist society where whiteness is not tied to greater life chances.
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So it seems that white women are expected to support the patriarchy by marrying within their racial group, reproducing whiteness and even minimizing violence against their own bodies.
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She also posited that spaces need to be created or curated where whiteness is better understood because it is not easy to see normalized or systemic power structures.
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The results didn't surprise me, because whiteness is seen as a space of privilege, and this is not new in Mexico or in the rest of the world.
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The expanded membership offerings are part of the Academy's continued efforts to diversify in response to ongoing backlash about the systemic whiteness of the awards and voting process.
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Even if you count yourself among those who despise racism, you reap the benefits of whiteness or the penalties of blackness, depending on the color of your skin.
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Trump's central promise as a politician has been the elevation, protection and promotion of whiteness, particularly white men who fear demographic changes and loss of status and privilege.
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Blackface is a product of a long history of whiteness and its attempt to make sense of itself through both the consumption and the negation of black humanity.
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There are powerful, almost incontrovertible, codes of decorum maintained by and for people who are thought of as white, or who have been invited to participate in whiteness.
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After all, many on the far right, like Mr. Spencer and the operators of organizations like VDare, declare that they do not hate others but rather promote whiteness.
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Growing up in Queens among other South Asians, I innately understood whiteness to be like the pair of aspirational jeans that were always a few sizes too small.
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" Churchmuch, who travels about a dozen times a year on business, acknowledges that her whiteness "affords [her] privilege around harassment, [including] not being mistaken for a hotel employee.
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His citizenship was challenged at a time when the courts had consistently held that whiteness was a requisite quality in a new American, and one that Afghans lacked.
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Austin Channing Brown is the author of I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness and executive producer of the video series The Next Question.
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Baldwin wrote about American racism — about the lethal and insidious power of whiteness to distort the nation's ideals and threaten its humanity — with unequaled vigor, humor and insight.
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But by far the most important cog in the wheel of the Progressive movement has been the necessary work to eradicate the scourge of "whiteness" from American campuses.
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To take note of that is not equitable with defending whiteness, as critic Aruna D'Souza has suggested — it's a defense of civil liberties and an appeal for civility.
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It was here that I understood that the multigenerational project of whiteness was demarcated by a process of indoctrination and that this indoctrination could, in fact, be unlearned.
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They're not ostracized by wealth or privilege or whiteness, and given that the demographics of the schools are predominantly white and predominantly wealthy, they are prepared for that.
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From what I could gather, she was hesitant to use the white emoji because it could come across as oppressive — as if she was shoving her whiteness at me.
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As the country drifted toward entering World War I by 1916, suffrage leaders offered themselves to that effort, and the whiteness took on the extra added patina of patriotism.
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Linzy's art is so brilliant in the way he manages to resist, even mock, the legibility of identity to the degree that nothing is stable: especially blackness and whiteness.
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She has created a situation where her whiteness will not only protect Hart but continue to give no recourse to the black queer community when we express our hurt.
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Women and candidates of color have been harmed by the myth of 'electability' and whiteness of early states deemed vitality important to attracting donors, endorsements and volunteers to win.
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Rather, we can imagine for ourselves an ontological factory such as this, tailor made for every monument in America (metaphorical or literal,) rendering visible the Whiteness of each one.
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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble exposes the ways in which biases in coding lead to search engines skew results to privilege whiteness.
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The whiteness of "Girls" — those cliques exist — is less of a problem when you also have "Survivor's Remorse" and "Being Mary Jane" and FX's coming "Atlanta" with Donald Glover.
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As whiteness dictates freedom, education, pleasure, and social mobility, have you ever wondered why so many of those considered to be our "greatest" artists or philosophers are white men?
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Should Muhammad's defense attorney be able to unearth the the victims' genetic heritage or argue that they didn't look or act "white enough" to be targeted for their "whiteness"?
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Her mother, Tina Lawson celebrates that in "Interlude: Tina Taught Me." She critiques the critics who question the pro-blackness then immediately, and falsely, associate it with anti-whiteness.
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This is the question sociologist and psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl tries to answer in his new book, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland.
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And what they have concluded again and again ever since is that public nudity is to be celebrated when it is performed with the markings of whiteness and wealth.
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From the beginning, he'd been clear-eyed about his place in American pop culture, which included references to his whiteness, but was focused mainly on smirking free-speech arguments.
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At the same time that black artists are coming into a sharper phase of their blackness, white Americans are coming into their whiteness, reckoning with it and embracing it.
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Located by itself in the museum's atrium, What It's Like, What It Is #3 (1991) is constructed to look like a minimalist cube whose whiteness is glaring and harsh.
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Brexit showed that the defense of what W.E.B. Du Bois called the psychological "wage" of whiteness, its relative privileges, was more important to the majority population than actual economics.
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Austin Channing Brown's I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness grabbed me by the collar and showed me what racial justice should really look like.
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These books celebrate the whiteness of classical statuary and cast the Apollo of the Belvedere — a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic bronze original — as the quintessence of beauty.
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All across America, we've seen the rise of a white evangelical Christian nationalism that equates Christianity with a particular notion of whiteness, as well as with GOP party politics.
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The more whites and nonwhites intermarry, the easier it will be to develop a more inclusive definition of "whiteness" that decreases the sense of threat from migration and diversity.
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Their marriage license identified Taylor as Hawaiian, a fiction that allowed her to account for the color of her skin while still conforming to the government's parameters for whiteness.
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I paid $47 an hour for someone to be my friend The unbearable whiteness of American charities Calling the cops on someone with mental illness can go terribly wrong.
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The most shocking aspect of Mr. Coates's wording here is the extent to which it mirrors ideas of race — specifically the specialness of whiteness — that white supremacist thinkers cherish.
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Sensodyne's toothpaste maintains your current level of whiteness in your teeth by applying a barrier that prevents new stains from forming as you eat and drink during the day.
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And when the president's only real purpose is to maintain the status of whiteness, he and his supporters have clear incentives for the rest of us to stay asleep.
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The chromatic contrast between the inkiness of their cassocks and the room's ascetic whiteness finds an echo in Rodrigues's rigid dualism, a belief in absolutes that will be tested.
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Instead, the review extends a protective arm around Williams's shoulder as Solomon welcomes Williams into the club of whiteness, where he need not worry his pretty head about race.
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With the deluge of imagery that associates beauty with whiteness, girls of color are primed not only to developing eating disorders, but also to see these disorders go untreated.
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With this definition of power still firmly in place, it will be difficult to come up with any compelling reason white people should divest from the privilege of whiteness.
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I was struck by the whiteness of Wallace's surroundings, a fact of many spaces of American higher learning, and one rarely articulated in literature by writers of any race.
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Key to the Great Replacement and its varied kin is the notion that the Jew has engineered an assimilation into whiteness in order to covertly destroy it from within.
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She takes on Peck, a baffling case and a bundle of nerves (plus impostor syndrome, amnesia, PTSD and a sideline fear of whiteness and black stripes), and "cures" him.
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It doesn't matter whether they are who they say they are; they carry with them an aura of truth their whiteness provides, and that is enough for many people.
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But this is all to say that I partly feel this way because for so long, "whiteness" has equated with "normal," the status quo, assumed to be the default.
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That means you'll have the opportunity to look straight into the eyes of Mr. Todd, eyes that widen to expose 360 bulging degrees of whiteness when he's especially excited.
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Whites in positions of power often preside over policy decisions that reproduce the reign of whiteness reign in the American academy, especially at the most selective colleges and universities.
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"If we continue to buy the idea that whiteness itself is not a race [and] has not been constructed, we continue to buy into our own collusion," she commented.
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Beginning in the 1820s and continuing for about a century, Tuckahoe was the site of four quarries that produced marble prized for its hardness, weather resistance and sparkling whiteness.
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Like the extraordinarily bright whiteness of the surgical mask of that doctor, who also told me that had I not moved faster it would have been so much worse.
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The film jerks the audience on a necrophiliac roller coaster, plunging us into the serenely violent whiteness of classic Technicolor musicals and then jerking us back to Mantan Moreland.
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Yet to push past Galanin's work as simply a representation of whiteness (a typical tactic of an older generation represented by Jimmie Durham) is to tease open the piece's ambiguities.
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While the curators of this year's exhibit arguably ignored black camp and centered whiteness, we were still eager to see what our favorite rappers would wear to honor the theme.
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They were also white men, and they felt that there was no cultural sympathy for them; in fact, there was a tendency to blame the categories of whiteness and maleness.
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Underneath the bong hits and blow jobs, director Elizabeth Wood is showing how Leah's whiteness is the real drug, begetting a kind of cluelessness and zeal that infects and intoxicates.
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As live performances increasingly become the most reliable way for artists to make money, more black artists are forced to confront the unbearable whiteness of most music festivals and concerts.
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All of that — in addition to questions of whiteness and class and "craft" — contributes to what one of Mailhot's mentors, Joan Naviyuk Kane, has called the "useful difficulty" of IAIA.
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But it could be a white girl from anywhere that moved to a big city, and is discovering whiteness and what race really is in America for the first time.
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You fear that figures like the two governors, far from euthanizing the demographically doomed idea of America as a synonym for whiteness, may actually be keeping it on life support.
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The sense of entitlement that accompanies this worldview depends on retrograde notions of masculinity and whiteness that affirm their delusions of grandeur, while medicating the ache of their own mediocrity.
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It's not surprising that for a long time the film industry was reluctant to make movies about black people, given how much of Hollywood's history has been steeped in whiteness.
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From LGBTQ+ acceptance to teen pregnancy, Roseanne effectively put everyday whiteness directly in conversation with topics that usually play out in the political arena and disproportionately affect people of color.
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The invitation and responsibility facing white people now is to see our own whiteness, to release the false sense of security it gives us and reconnect with our underlying humanity.
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As a Black girl, Aladdin was also special because it was the first Disney film that shifted away from the pasty whiteness that defined the rest of its princess lineup.
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Little of this is Seinfeld's fault; television's whiteness has far more to do with the Clinton-era repeal of the Financial Interest and Syndication Rules (a subject for another time).
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Just as the construction of race pointedly solidified whiteness as the most powerful race, the construction of a racialized Middle Ages made white nationhood the dominant narrative of the era.
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From the foyer, one can see a thicket of plaster in the main gallery, but thanks to the whiteness of the walls and of the materials, the tone is elegiac.
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When I turned around I was met by the sight of her in the undulating landscape of dustsheets, the whiteness broken by the blue and green shapes of her clothing.
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Most of my friends were white, and my best friend was biracial—Nigerian and white—and I don't know, you're just surrounded in whiteness basically with everything that you consume.
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Or he could have pointed out that some of his most famous movies take place in self-aware parodies of 1950s suburbia, where pervasive whiteness is part of the joke.
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Lum lost the case in Supreme Court, but the battle he chose to fight—securing the privileges of whiteness for his daughter, rather than against a racist system—is instructive.
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And it has to do with that feeling that the performance of whiteness is something that's supposed to be a counter to what we're told is the performance of blackness.
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Outside of Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal, there's still a lot of whiteness (and trees and rocks and ice) that makes up everything stretching from George Street to the Pacific Ocean.
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Like a typical Fujimoto building, it gave off an overwhelming impression of whiteness — white walls, white furniture, white architectural models — with blond accents furnished by the large plywood work tables.
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The set design, by Caitlin Dippo and Katrina Matejcik, extends the whiteness of the theater's walls and floor by covering the rear wall, where the windows are, with white blinds.
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By foregrounding whiteness, we remind ourselves that race is a social construct that, for the most part, white people have used to assert or imply that white people are superior.
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Also, in politics, during electoral campaigns, you can see the faces of politicians, both men and women, photoshopped to occupy the space of whiteness and be more likable and trustworthy.
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At best, it's using a weak justification to champion a narrow understanding of the play; at worst, it venerates whiteness unironically and uncritically, which seems antithetical to the play itself.
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But many of these people will, like me, be of predominantly European ancestry and have skin tone and other facial features that fit comfortably within the conventional boundaries of whiteness.
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" It ends with a text exchange between Mr. Nance and the assistant director Annalise Lockhart, who suggests that "as ARTISTS we should be addressing whiteness less … and affirming Blackness more.
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It's a question that feels particularly relevant in the Trump era, where we know that 53 percent of white women were so invested in whiteness that they voted for Trump.
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I resent, every time, that my identity will be assumed into a featureless, monolithic bloc of whiteness and ascribed to an established majority I neither identify with nor aspire to.
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And does the whiteness of the interns reflect willful culling or just self-selection, with black and brown potential candidates opting not to apply to work in this White House?
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Horror maestro Stephen King has chimed in on the subject of diversifying the arts, in response to backlash against the all-too-familiar whiteness of the 2020 Oscar nominations slate.
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A few weeks ago, in reaction to something we had written about blackness and whiteness in recent movies, my colleague Manohla Dargis and I received a note from a reader.
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Add the deluge of imagery that associates beauty with whiteness, and girls of color are primed not only to developing eating disorders, but also to see these disorders go untreated.
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Trump's America is white, and he sees his job as protecting that whiteness from black and brown people who might come to the country or claim greater status within it.
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The young African immigrant must locate herself along three divides: the first between blackness and whiteness; the second within blackness, between native and foreign; the third between African and American.
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In the wake of the 2016 election's focus on rural America, Man of the Woods caught Timberlake performing whiteness on a grand scale for the first time in his career.
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"It's not whiteness per se, but your experience as a white person does not give you proximity for what you're trying to represent," Ms. Karefa-Smart said in the interview.
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The framing in the top half of the image, its stark whiteness, evokes the terrible gravity of history: This is how it was, and this is how it shall remain.
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" Juxtaposed against the pristine whiteness of the Olympic Winter Games, Khan hopes his building will provoke a philosophical experience by presenting visitors with a "void of infinite depth and possibility.
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And in that moment, I want you to lament a country that continues to grant privilege to whiteness, that continues to fall far short of what is written on parchment.
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I see this policy as part of a continuum: It is how white Australia has dealt with anyone who challenges that whiteness from the time the aboriginal people were incarcerated.
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All these discussions have made me think that we need to start talking about something we rarely do, which is how to think about whiteness — our own and the movies.
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"He uses the concepts of either 'culture' or 'civilization' to obfuscate that he's talking about whiteness and race," said Lawrence Rosenthal, chairman of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies.
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He wholly expects that his opinion will be minimized, if not discarded altogether, so his anger is directed instead at West, whose whiteness grants them what little leverage they have.
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" As progressive as it sounds, not everyone is pleased about the endeavor, with one conservative news agency dubbing it "Hate Whitey Month" and another outlet describing it as "whiteness shaming.
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The piece is named "Intolerable Whiteness," a nod to lactose intolerance which, according to the artist's statement, affects most African Americans and Latinx people, and the vast majority of Asians.
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The night was a reminder of my internal struggles as a queer youth of color, trying to find my reflection on dancefloors that were too often filled with whiteness and hate.
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" Roehl added that they "encouraged students to examine the role that power has in the stories studied to get a sense of the ways Whiteness silences some voices and amplifies others.
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Using the reclining Venus as an inspiration, Lawson constructs, from blackness, her own definition, critiquing the narrow aesthetic monopolies whiteness has had on the body, sexuality, and the canon of portraiture.
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Through her work, Saar responds to Morrison's protagonist whose quest for blue eyes — symbols of whiteness — denote the character's desire to be valued by a society that often discounts Black beauty.
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Whiteness has long been deracialized, which is to say, considered not as a race but as a baseline, not as a way of being so much as the way of being.
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