Drawn from the words white and Asian, many use the term to celebrate shared experiences. But the label raises questions about valuing proximity to whiteness.
Articles on Whiteness
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Several white nationalist groups such as Return to the Land have attempted to establish all-white communities across the country.
Examining Austen as a radical genius misunderstands her art and misrepresents the imperial culture that she was part of.
The US and other countries have a legal definition of citizenship, yet human psychology and identity politics result in ingrained biases over who truly belongs.
For some children of immigrants, voting Conservative isn’t a contradiction — it’s a strategy for being seen as fully Canadian.
Donald Trump’s attacks on Kamala Harris expose a worldview that defends whiteness as imbued with dominance over other racial groups.
A Colonial Boy is a welcome book for Eppel scholars, but some readers may be put off by its use of literary sketches.
Ordinary Whites in Apartheid South Africa is a new book that explores how apartheid monitored and shaped white life, and how all classes of white people were complicit.
Beefs often target Drake’s race, constructing him as a Canadian who is not Black enough to claim an authentic connection to African-American hip hop culture.
Considered the greatest writer in English literature, William Shakespeare illustrates views on race and whiteness throughout all of his dramatic works.
The Undertow tells how the cultural divisions in American society could allow events like the Capitol storming to happen – and how, despite this, Trump is the Republican frontrunner for president.
The silence of some Canadian universities in addressing antisemitism, in particular when considered alongside active approaches toward equity and racial justice, needs to be addressed.
The perceived “otherness” of eastern and central Europe is a complex phenomenon, which a new book on the Polish Nobel laureate’s oeuvre brings to light.
Stan Grant’s new book, The Queen is Dead, is revealing in terms of his decision to step down from public life. ‘I have been reminded what it is to come from the other side of history,’ he writes.
The viral Kane vs. Karen meme invites the viewer to see the parallels between the actions of a white female hockey fan, surrounded by white onlookers, towards a Black player surrounded by referees.
Beliefs about language are never just about language. They reflect institutional power dynamics.
Black students told a researcher they felt conflicted about hiding parts of themselves in order to get ahead.
Western fashion, laundering and style reflected the racialized politics dramatically shaped by profound global transformations bound up with slavery, colonialism and modernization.
As a political tool with a long history and dubious boundaries, whiteness – by its very fluidity – fosters violence.
This is not a drastic approach or a political agenda, but a call to open up spaces for conversations about racism, about whiteness, about race with white people listening and not centring themselves.
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Reader in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Presidential Fellow in Ethnicity and Inequalities, University of Manchester
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Associate Dean Education, Gnibi College, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago
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Adjunct assistant professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Senior Lecturer in Literature, University of Essex
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Professeur Agrégé, Institut d'études féministes et de genre, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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PhD in Sociology, University of Southampton
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Professor of Education, University of Sydney
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Professor, Sociology, University of the Western Cape, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Social Psychology, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State