as in paleness
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Recent Examples of whiteness
But European regionalism has always also included ethnic and cultural elements connected to Christianity and whiteness.
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Hans Kundnani, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024
The temperance look feels like a reaction against a beauty standard drifting away from whiteness; in other words, it is related to the death of Kardashianism, where even the sisters appear to be lightening their tans and slimming their backsides.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
One Civil War-era photographer Charles Eisenmann took pictures of performers known as Circassian Beauties, women supposedly from the Caucasus, displaying them as exemplars of pure whiteness.
—Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2024
September 9, 2024 4 min read Defending the U.S. is much more complicated in an era of climate change
By Sherri Goodman
Flying by helicopter over the Greenland ice sheet, I am struck by its vast expanse of whiteness.
—Sherri Goodman, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2024
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Hans Kundnani, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024
The temperance look feels like a reaction against a beauty standard drifting away from whiteness; in other words, it is related to the death of Kardashianism, where even the sisters appear to be lightening their tans and slimming their backsides.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
One Civil War-era photographer Charles Eisenmann took pictures of performers known as Circassian Beauties, women supposedly from the Caucasus, displaying them as exemplars of pure whiteness.
—Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2024
September 9, 2024 4 min read Defending the U.S. is much more complicated in an era of climate change
By Sherri Goodman
Flying by helicopter over the Greenland ice sheet, I am struck by its vast expanse of whiteness.
—Sherri Goodman, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2024
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“Whiteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whiteness. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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