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Those words spoke to a long tradition of Creole men pilfering the privileges of whiteness in America.
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Darryl Barthé, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025
Sinners is a horror film with vampires who represent the relationship between whiteness and the blues.
—Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
Colonial Americans equated whiteness with British heritage, for example, excluding Germans from that category.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
While colonial administrators imagined the West to be home to progress, order, and economic development, all of which were imagined as coterminous with whiteness, the East was imagined as its opposite.
—Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
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Darryl Barthé, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025
Sinners is a horror film with vampires who represent the relationship between whiteness and the blues.
—Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
Colonial Americans equated whiteness with British heritage, for example, excluding Germans from that category.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
While colonial administrators imagined the West to be home to progress, order, and economic development, all of which were imagined as coterminous with whiteness, the East was imagined as its opposite.
—Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whiteness
pallor
Noun
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Symptoms include easy bruising, pallor, and decreased urine.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
5 June 2025
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As a result, even his best and most engaging songs have a somber pallor hovering just over them.—
Jon Caramanica,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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“Whiteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whiteness. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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