2010, Elizabeth Cronkhite, The Acim Mentor Articles: Answers for Students of a Course in Miracles, Lulu.com (→ISBN), page 234:
Whiteness is the visual representative of God here. Imagine whiteness being everywhere – extending up, down, all around. There is only whiteness – so whiteness is one. There are no parts in whiteness, because it is all one ...
2022 September 14, John Branch, “The Elusive Future of San Francisco’s Fog”, in New York Times[1], →ISSN:
Chris Dzierman, a bridge painter and foreman, looked to the west. Near the horizon, where water usually meets sky, a thick fog bank lurked. He wondered if and when it would roll in, as fog usually does on summer afternoons, smothering the bridge and beyond in wind and whiteness.
2005, Yeidy M. Rivero, Lynn Spigel, Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television, in Yeidy M. Rivero, Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television, Duke University Press Books:
The American characters embodied a third level of whiteness that can be distinguished from a Puerto Rican or a Spanish whiteness. American whiteness obscured the racial and class distinctions among the local members of the hotel by positioning local whites in a subordinate and similar location to el negrito, […]
2008, Judith C. Blackwell, Murray E. G. Smith, John S. Sorenson, Culture of Prejudice: Arguments in Critical Social Science, University of Toronto Press (→ISBN), page 47:
Indeed, one of the pernicious aspects of this system is that whiteness is privileged in such a way that it becomes obscured, allowing white people to say they are “colour-blind” and do not think about “race,” luxuries denied to those who must must suffer the direct effects of racism.
2009, Terrance MacMullan, Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction, page 182:
A pragmatist critique of whiteness seeks a middle ground between eliminativism and essentialism; […] Du Bois explained why the habits of whiteness are so toxic: they encourage violence, undermine the formation and sustenance of community, put money before humanity, and leave white folk culturally undernourished and rootless.
2011, Marvin McAllister, Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance, Univ of North Carolina Press (→ISBN), page 46:
With so many selfpossessed, modish, and occasionally surly black bodies, essential linkages equating whiteness with supremacy and blackness with subservience were under attack.
2012, E. Lâle Demirtürk, The Contemporary African American Novel: Multiple Cities, Multiple Subjectivities, and Discursive Practices of Whiteness in Everyday Urban Encounters, Fairleigh Dickinson (→ISBN), page 159:
Whiteness is allowed the power to function as natural and human, for its invisibility is maintained through assuming “its normativity” (Yancy, Black Bodies, 46). This elusive constructedness of whiteness helps maintain its “invisible” position, ...
2012, Joe Parker, Ranu Samantrai, Mary Romero, Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice: Revisioning Academic Accountability, SUNY Press (→ISBN), page 217:
Most notably, the language of civil rights is mobilized to protect whiteness, which is cast not only as a minority identity, but also as one injured by the denial of public representation. In this scenario, whiteness is revealed as embodied and ...
2014, Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Recognizing Race and Ethnicity: Power, Privilege, and Inequality, Westview Press (→ISBN), page 439:
Another way whiteness is privileged in the political sphere is that black politicians are unlikely to win national campaigns, where winning a significant portion of the white vote is necessary, if they are perceived as affiliated with the civil rights movement.
2015 June 21, Steve Rose, “From Ali G to Rachel Dolezal: the colourful history of blacking up”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
In his autobiography, Dreams From My Father, Obama details how he consciously cultivated his black identity, aligning with “the more politically active black students”, seemingly at the expense of his whiteness.
2016, Emily Suzanne Clark, A Luminous Brotherhood: Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans, UNC Press Books (→ISBN), page 136:
[…] the white Creole historian and former president of the Louisiana Historical Society Charles Gayarré began a campaign for Creole to be designated a white-only ethnic category. To protect the sanctity of whiteness, ...
However, English whiteness, and its attachment to moral superiority, grew with the Reformation of 1517.
2018, Samuel Jaye Tanner, Whiteness, Pedagogy, and Youth in America: Critical Whiteness Studies in the Classroom, Routledge (→ISBN)
White rage serves to protect whiteness from consideration by white people because, perhaps, they have difficulty holding the white racial image in their consciousness, making it difficult to think or talk sensibly about whiteness.
2022, Shelly Tochluk, Witnessing Whiteness: The Journey Into Racial Awareness and Antiracist Action, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 106:
White nationalists recognize this as an opening. They hear antiracists' calls to “dismantle whiteness” and suggestions that we should be “less white” and they use our words against us as they claim that “antiracism is antiwhite.”
But I can't sleep when they're wearing the sheets in the precincts / You didn't hide it / So don't deny it / You call it righteous / We know it's whiteness / You didn't hide it / So don't deny it / You call it righteous / We call it spineless
