whiteness

Even when it doesn’t affect the plot directly, it’s the canvas the story is painted on, its whiteness of an intensity not otherwise seen on the screen, except in starship hallways.

Castas charted categories of racial mixing, assigning hierarchies based on proximity to whiteness.

"Their hearts must have sunk seeing this black flag against the whiteness of Antarctica," said David Waterhouse, curator of the polar museum at SPRI.

Other factors in why right-wing Christians are more likely to support Trumpism include authoritarian personalities, social dominance orientation, tribalism and the role that whiteness and racism play in American evangelical Christianity.

“This assumption that of all the hues of God whiteness alone is inherently and obviously better than brownness or tan leads to curious acts,” he wrote.