whiteness

Example Sentences

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“I will tell you, this resonated with every Black reporter that ever interviewed me about my book,” said Brown, author of The Whiteness of Wealth.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2024

Knowing that Webster wanted to write about this history, her cousin urged her to highlight rather than downplay their ancestors’ decision to reject their background and escape into the privileges of Whiteness.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2023

As of 17:30 about 350 properties remained without power in Clousta, Murrister to Snarraness and Bayhall to Whiteness.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2022

Why was the Spanish government willing to give the castas the right to purchase the legal status of Whiteness?

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

For thus it became of a Colour equal in Whiteness to that of Ashes, or of Wood newly cut, or of a Man's Skin.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir