caucasity
noun
behavior by a white person that demonstrates privilege, ignorance, and often racism
What does caucasity mean?
Caucasity (sometimes caucacity, also caudacity) refers to behavior by a white person that demonstrates privilege, ignorance, and often racism; in other words, white audacity. Caucasity is also sometimes used more broadly, and often humorously, to refer to whiteness in general, or a quality/behavior/etc. characteristic or typical of white people.
Examples of caucasity
In too many states, the King holiday has been paired with something confederate, even though we know that the confederates lost. It is a genuflection to Caucasity that allows some states, southern in particular, to attempt to erase the meaning of King.
—Julianne Malveaux, The Washington Informer, 22 Jan. 2025
This energy is needed considering how hard some politicians and their followers were coming for our history and storytelling in 2023 with book bans and school curriculum changes (side-eyes Florida), then have the caucasity to try to rewrite the narrative so it makes white people more comfortable.
—It remains incredibly frustrating to watch the (distant) descendants of the Europeans who colonized our countries for spices have the audacity (or caudacity) to not be able to distinguish among them.
—The CAUCASITY of these news articles praising a white boy for doing something [a backflip in Olympic figure skating] a Black woman [Surya Bonaly] did 30 years ago and was penalized, during BLACK HISTORY month, is mind boggling.
—The audience begins to clap as well as its overwhelming Caucasity will allow.
—For my Christmas column, in lieu of another eggnog ranking or spiced-beer listicle, I decided to track down Puerto Rico’s silky-smooth, coconut-based counterpoint to the viscous Christmas caucasity of eggnog.
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Where does caucasity come from?
Both caucasity and caudacity are portmanteaus of Caucasian (“of or relating to a group of people having European ancestry, classified according to physical traits (such as light skin pigmentation) and formerly considered to constitute a race of humans”) and audacity, meaning “bold or arrogant disregard of normal restraints.”
The earliest known uses of caucasity appeared online in the early 2010s. Coinage is widely credited to The Kid Mero (Dominican-American writer and comedian Joel Armogasto Martinez) who used it in a review of a Brian Eno album for VICE in 2012.
… HAD THE CAUCACITY TO GIVE ALL THE JOINTS ON THIS SHIT THE SAME NAME.
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How is caucasity used?
Usually disapproving, often humorously/tongue-in-cheek, sometimes both.
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