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nonwhiteness

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English

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Etymology

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From non- +‎ whiteness.

Noun

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nonwhiteness (uncountable)

  1. The property of not being racially white.
    • 2015 August 7, Nigel Cliff, “Hugh Thomas’s ‘World Without End: Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire’”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      He puzzles that no one nowadays makes use of the elaborate terminology for degrees of nonwhiteness: quadroons and octoroons, mestizos and zambos and the rest.
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