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Recent Examples of whiteness
The whiteness of the cold cream just really spooked me.
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
There’s a real fear about the eroding hegemony of whiteness internationally.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
Jean is constantly undercutting John by calling out his whiteness and privilege, and John is more than willing to embody that role for the bit.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
To subvert whiteness with Blackness as a cultural and psychological lingua franca cannot possibly undo the wounds that molded modern Blackness in the first place, a diasporic concern that places even the most joyous liberation and self-expression in an especially morose context.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
There’s a real fear about the eroding hegemony of whiteness internationally.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
Jean is constantly undercutting John by calling out his whiteness and privilege, and John is more than willing to embody that role for the bit.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
To subvert whiteness with Blackness as a cultural and psychological lingua franca cannot possibly undo the wounds that molded modern Blackness in the first place, a diasporic concern that places even the most joyous liberation and self-expression in an especially morose context.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Whiteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whiteness. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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