whiteness

Example Sentences

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He theorises that inequality exists in a nation founded on pro-black, pan-African principles because a deference for whiteness was hard-wired into the region, long before independence.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

"Once you go inside the continent, there is nothing. It's just a big, vast expanse of whiteness and there is no life," Tordeur said.

From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

Their non-Jewishness, their non-otherness, their whiteness, their musical career, and their father’s birthplace—in a region that changed nationalities but ended up in Italy—enabled the family’s relatively smooth immigration process.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2025

I put the fingertips of my left hand on that old tree’s trunk and felt the smooth, worn, warm whiteness.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan