| 单词 | whiteness |
| 例句 | When I brushed the dirt from the lid and opened it, I saw first the whiteness of her gloves, then the photograph wrapped in waxed paper, just as I’d left it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in a great, billowing white cloud, floating in the whiteness, and there were huge buckets of water being thrown on him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Absentmindedly, I began picking at the cracks in the couch’s leather, digging my fingers into the foamy whiteness. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The Borribles did and there, just a little beyond the rim of the bridge, they saw a halo of harsh whiteness reflected on the underneath of the dark sky. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z White families, meanwhile, were moving out of the city in droves, lured by the suburbs—the promise of better schools, more space, and probably more whiteness, too. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Next month the bolls would explode into whiteness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There’s nothing but whiteness and the howling wind that sounds remarkably like the muttations. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Now, the whiteness around him became a shining whiteness; his eyes began to blink. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Little could be seen from watchtower or wall but a blank whiteness covering everything. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Ah! the wind and the whiteness and the black branches of Winter upon Orod-na-Thôn! The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The truth was that Washington confused me, with its decorous traditions and sober self-regard, its whiteness and maleness, its ladies having lunch off to one side. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Rachel I could only despise more if I knew for sure which way to direct my ire, presumably South Africa, where I guess she’s finally hit paydirt with her exceeding whiteness and mercenary husband. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Farther down, I could see the shimmering whiteness of the tall sycamores. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And that's when I realized Mrs. Baker's whiteness was of no use to her in this particular situation—facing my sister and having to look up as she decided whether to repeat herself. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z And then all Sierra saw was dull whiteness—a billowing cloud that resolved into a screaming face. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z After she had bestowed her veil, the nereid dove like a gull to windward where a dark waveside closed over her whiteness. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But later, he remembered the moth-like whiteness of the very old skin. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Thoughts evaded me, hiding in the vast stretch of clinical whiteness to which I seemed connected only by a scale of receding grays. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Montag did not move, but stood looking into the cold whiteness of the wall immediately before him. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky darkened, but we floated in a milky whiteness that seemed to hold the plane suspended above Puerto Rico. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Because I’d had my eyes closed, the whiteness of the room seemed even brighter than before. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The wounded whiteness gleamed open in the moon. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see a whiteness in the gloom near him so he grabbed it from Maurice and blew as loudly as he could. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z A gray tinge lingers just under the whiteness of her skin, and tiny patches of whiskers crop up along her cheeks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z When he saw the rent in the lead, the blood rushed to his face for an instant, but as quickly fell away again, so that he remained of a ghastly whiteness; he was still silent. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z But there was no ground beneath her feet, just a misty, milky whiteness. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z But still their meanings were lost in the vast whiteness in which I myself was lost. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s working on it,” Gabriel whispered to himself, lying all the way down on his back and staring at the ceiling to see the all-too-familiar rough whiteness sprinkled with the tiniest flecks of gold sparkle. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z As the whiteness diminishes, so does the pain. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It hurt my eyes to see so much whiteness. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And then it took shape in the mist: a dark house, which loomed at them out of the formless whiteness. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The fluffy flakes had fallen and fallen for hours, so the whole campus was blanketed in a thick, gleaming whiteness. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He approached one of them, then saw the whiteness of his own long-fingered hand against the door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was really the paint that appealed to me, the whiteness of it, like a mask, and the bright red lips. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z And the whiteness makes the effect difficult to see, but the entire garden is transparent. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Du Bois once observed that the psychological wage of whiteness put “an indelible black face to failure.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Behind him, black dots swarmed on a plane of whiteness. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Then, involuntarily, he started in fright as a full blast of intense sunshine fell from the sky, making the snow leap and glitter and sparkle about him in a world of magic whiteness without sound. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He is undersized and his ears stick out and he speaks with a high, sweet voice; the whiteness of his hair stops people in their tracks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Good point. My mom said we leveled up in whiteness because of the trip.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A man was climbing over a near-by ledge, and beyond him was a small knot of men, their faces lit to a distinct whiteness by the swinging pencils of light. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z What did the whites think of her whiteness? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The day was cold enough to make his breath visible, and he wondered for a moment at the purity and whiteness of his own breath among the dirty, gray explosions surrounding him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The walls were white but the whiteness didn't look like paint. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Directly in front of her was even more whiteness, a ring of it, and in the center a low shelf of land almost hidden in the glare of sunlight. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Beatty smiled his smile which showed the candy pinkness of his gums and the tiny candy whiteness of his teeth. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Their faces, their flesh simmered with whiteness and they seemed so much a part of another life, so separated from me now that I felt consumed with loneliness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Against the whiteness you could see every mark standing out in bright red hieroglyphics telling the story of our journey. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Even from the street I can see the whiteness of his teeth. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Then, like a movie that burns in the projector while you’re watching it, a bloom of hot and perfect whiteness spread out before me and swallowed everything. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z As I set the can back in the shadowy eaves of the barn, it seemed to glow with a radiant whiteness I had never seen before. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I pacified myself about his whiteness by saying that after all he had been dead so long it couldn’t matter to anyone any more. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked across malevolent swirling whiteness and did not know if they would survive. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z All you could see of her face was the whiteness of the bandage. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z With her other hand, she carries a paper sack, and her eyes rapidly apprehend the boys’ uni-forms and the intense whiteness of Werner’s hair and the livid bruises beneath Frederick’s eyes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Even the child was staring now at his father, his eyes like black stones against the naked whiteness of his veined face. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z One could have believed that its whiteness, smoothness, and expanse had at one time cried out rather plaintively for India ink and block lettering. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z His green eyes were so calm, and so wet and bright, and his head was so bald against the whiteness of the pillow. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z And then the whiteness would spread to the rest of me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That shadow would marry this shadow, and the peculiar, yellowish soil of our locality seal the wound in the whiteness, and yet another snowfall erase the traces of newness in Joan's grave. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z She was a lamentable splotch, her black hair and brown skin and green shirt and blue jeans and purple backpack a speck in this eternal whiteness. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z His voice cracked with the strain, and they stood looking at each other in the whiteness and the emptiness, and Harry felt they were as insignificant as insects beneath that wide sky. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “I guess it made me feel like blackness needed to be hidden, toned down, and that whiteness was good, more acceptable,” Maxine says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z For an instant I see Cordelia and Grace, and Carol, walking toward me through the astonishing whiteness of the snow, their faces in shadow. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The purplish-brown body contrasted with the whiteness of the tub. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She would have given anything for a dressing-gown, not just to keep her warm but to hide the whiteness of her nightie from watchful eyes in the garden below. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And the long narrow driveway down which they drove Robbie away, into the whiteness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But what I saw then, and keep seeing now, is all that whiteness. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ice Garden is silent and still, nothing but crisp, cool whiteness in every direction. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He yearned for a bed and sheets-but the only whiteness here was the slow spilt milk, luminous round the rock forty feet below, where Piggy had fallen. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The way her pelvic bones stretched the material clear of her skin, the deep curve of her waist, her startling whiteness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As if poor blacks, in their simplemindedness, believed that proximity to whiteness conferred a blessing, a kind of miraculous dispensation from the travails of poverty. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Soon the two figures merge with the haziness, and I can see them under the kitchen-light whiteness. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Apartheid said that the only reason colored people couldn’t have first-class status was because black people might use coloredness to sneak past the gates to enjoy the benefits of whiteness. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly—mostly—let them have their whiteness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I sink to my knees on the cold tile and squint at the flower, as the whiteness seems hard to focus on in the stark fluorescent light. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I lie there in the whiteness of that room and let my thoughts do the walking. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Though sometimes I feel like I’m swimming in whiteness. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z There’s a whiteness in my head and I feel like a boy in heaven. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At last the wind blows, the whiteness thins, and the blue jay catches sight of me. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a whiteness around the editor’s mouth as he slapped a crumpled hat on his red head. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat with him for a shorter and shorter time each day as my fear took over and the grasping whiteness of the garden blinded me. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a casual way of ignoring affronts, slipping past insults to her whiteness like a seasoned boxer slips punches. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Terupt still lay motionless inside the vast whiteness and beeping of that building. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Tears glistened on his cheeks and in the winter whiteness of his beard. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Amah looked at him, noticing the whiteness of his skin and his gaunt face. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It was as though the season had exhausted itself, for on January first the temperature shot up to sixty-one degrees and slushed the whiteness overnight. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I could see a patch there all right, and a few threadbare spots, but no whiteness was showing through. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It appeared the same: a gray tinge glowed through the whiteness, and Kimbro had failed to detect it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she pushed her hand into the sticky, clinging whiteness of the stuff on the wall. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Shadrack stared at the soft colors that filled these triangles: the lumpy whiteness of rice, the quivering blood tomatoes, the grayish-brown meat. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z So whiteness is the thing to aspire to. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The cupboard doors, the sink, the chairs...there’s chalky whiteness everywhere. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z It was an unusual, bird’s-eye view of our country's leaders, an ocean of whiteness and maleness dressed in dark suits. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The Negro who turns now, in the moment of near-realization of his liberties, and bares his fangs at a man’s whiteness, makes the same tragic error the white racist has made. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It made him look thinner and the whiteness made the dark circles under his eyes stand out even more. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Dimly, from a nearly forgotten perception as blurred as the substance itself, Jonas recalled what the whiteness was. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Laila sees her panicked eyes, the whiteness of her palms as they slap and push against the sheet. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The only break in all that whiteness was a drain at the very center of the floor, surrounded by reddish stains. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The whiteness of it stood out from his deep brown tan, making him seem splashed with wave foam. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And mine, I think, is to leave my house one day unmarked by whiteness and walk on a compassionate earth with Ruth May beside me, bearing me no grudge. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z My whiteness could bar him outright from many possibilities, maybe even survival, in the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even now, when I think back on it, I can still see the glossy whiteness of her scalp. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Kneeling in front of the poster board, there’s so much whiteness, I’m tempted to find a soft-lead pencil and draw tiny footprints, maybe two sets, walking through a windswept field of snow. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus one of the greatest jokes in the world is the spectacle of the whites busy escaping blackness and becoming blacker every day, and the blacks striving toward whiteness, becoming quite dull and gray. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The path unwound; perhaps it was taking them somewhere, willfully, since neither of them could step off it and go knowingly into the annihilation of whiteness that was the grass on either side. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z As the years passed, due to the carelessness of some of the Whitcomb brothers, it became difficult to maintain their whiteness, and some distant and some not so distant relatives married each other. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z When they looked out into the whiteness of the world the wind flung it sharply at their narrowed eyes and foreshortened their view of everything. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The sink and tub were scrubbed until their whiteness could snow-blind. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Then her husband turned to her wan-eyed and with a greenish pallor which subdued the snowy whiteness of his hair, and asked:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Robin watched while the silent whiteness covered the hills and the roofs of the town. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z And later, one look at the whiteness of their faces and their bloodshot eyes led everyone to believe that it was true. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z But Pinmei stood still, curiously studying Lady Meng, who, against the whiteness of snow and ice, looked like a painting come to life. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Other colored people hated me because of my whiteness. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The northern sunshine seemed to pick up faint particles of whiteness floating in the air and powdering the sleek blue sky. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He does not know that one day a woman like his mother may judge him by the whiteness of his teeth. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Its whiteness contrasted starkly with the black veil that framed her head like a shroud. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Every minute the water breathed round the death rock and flowered into a field of whiteness. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The surge moved like a wallowing mountain range, roiling to a whiteness at its peaks. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z In both cases the aim is to reveal and incorporate the whiteness of the paper underneath. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z I mean, imagine being suspended in whiteness with only your thoughts for a year, much less 10 or 20 years. Reading Stephen King's 'It': Still unsettling, all these years later 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z In the film, Baldwin called whiteness a “metaphor for power” and called out this country’s legacy of racism in the bluntest of terms. In ‘Exterminate All the Brutes,’ Raoul Peck Takes Aim at White Supremacy 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z It’s the unchecked race privilege — the belief in the normative nature of whiteness, leading to blithe intolerance like that expressed by Ms. Gries — that is nauseating. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Big Brother’ Becomes a Lab Experiment In Overt Racism 2013-07-16T22:44:18Z Popular culture often assumes as much, and assumes his whiteness, too, which is partly a failure of collective imagination, and partly a matter of whose cultural obsessions are taken as representative. Shelf Life: Our Collections and the Passage of Time 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z But the American reality has always been about violently affirming the political power of whiteness. This can’t become our new normal: Hate acts reported across the country in wake of Trump’s victory 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z And it made me look inward at some of the issues that I had growing up, that I hadn't worked out myself, and thinking, “Why do I think that whiteness is more beautiful?” "Blue Eye Samurai" cuts through multiracial shame, what it is "to be ostracized from both sides" 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z And how might the playwright’s proximity to whiteness color the reception to her case? ‘Help’ Review: Blindfolds (and Kid Gloves) Off. Let’s Analyze Whiteness. 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z It’s opaquely menacing, but slippery — are there militaristic undertones? veiled appeals to whiteness? echoes of Stalingrad or raves in Eastern Bloc bunkers? Anne Imhof, Dancing in the Ruins 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z In each instance, Ms. Goldberg challenges and expands our ideas of blackness by conjuring up an audible signifier typically identified with whiteness. When Black Performers Use Their ‘White Voice’ 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z I see many great and necessary new works about the problem of Blackness in a racist society — or rather, the problem of whiteness. Review: In ‘Chicken & Biscuits,’ a Sweet but Dated Comedic Recipe 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z I was struck by the whiteness of Wallace’s surroundings, a fact of many spaces of American higher learning, and one rarely articulated in literature by writers of any race. Jeremy O. Harris: Brandon Taylor ‘Subjugates Us With the Deft Hand of a Dom’ 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z In one chapter he takes his bearings from the watercolourist Eric Ravilious, "a votary of whiteness and remoteness, and a visionary of the everyday". The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane – review 2012-05-31T07:00:02Z “I wanted to be in conversation with whiteness and I wanted to talk to that because I hadn’t really seen anyone doing that, especially in comedy,” says Bravo. In ‘Zola,’ Janciza Bravo’s cinema of ‘life at high volume’ 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z And lastly, this apocalyptic narrative where there will be a race war where, I presume, the forces of of whiteness will triumph. Behind Dylann Roof’s race war: The highly motivated secret white supremacy movement working toward “the battle of Armageddon” 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Some of the most urgent reform campaigns concern the overwhelming whiteness of the industry. Sequins and Soul-Searching in the Competitive Dance World 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z I used my whiteness to its full effect when I was younger, because I had the superpower of invisibility and I could disappear in a room. Hannah Gadsby meets Roxane Gay: ‘Trolls get incensed by a woman daring to think she's funny. I'm very funny’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Country is more than a genre — it is a culture steeped in conservatism, masculinity and whiteness. The Chicks Are Done Caring What People Think 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z I don’t talk about my feelings because it’s hard to justify doing so while people of color are dying due to systemic racism and making this conversation about me would be again centering whiteness. How Can I Cure My White Guilt? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z "Bridgerton" in this respect is no great leap forward for inclusion but rather a hop from total whiteness to a teeny, tiny dot on a nearby tile. "Bridgerton" is Netflix's randy costume confection that you'll want to put in your face straightaway 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z What is the relationship between blondness and whiteness? What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z In terms of the conversations in the writers room, we were sort of stumbling upon the idea – and Donald, more specifically – this idea that whiteness is a curse as well. When "Atlanta" Met the Northman: Executive producer Stefani Robinson breaks down the season finale 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z “O so white, O so soft, O so sweet,” he sang, with sweet, soft whiteness. Music Review: Andreas Scholl and Tamar Halperin at Lincoln Center 2012-12-10T22:47:29Z Both of those are traditional favorites, the latter connoting sinful richness, and — in contrast with angel food cake’s fluffy whiteness — a deep color, often with a glint of crimson. The unexpected value of beets 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z When contrasting the articles about Mr. Lochte and Mr. McEnroe, she said, “an important question emerges about how The Times centers whiteness,” when the news stories are positive and when they are negative. Analyzing Race and Gender Bias Amid All the News That’s Fit to Print 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The truth of the matter is that many—most—contemporary artists of non-color are interested in reflecting themselves, their creamy whiteness and hair untroubled by thought. The Inclusive Humanity of Alice Neel’s Paintings 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Aquaman symbolizes a bridge to a new ecological world order that is delinked from whiteness, from colonialism and from unregulated capitalism. From "Aquaman" to "Avatar," ocean-centric blockbusters are eroding our terrestrial bias 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z In fact, when one looks at stone statues what strikes one more than their whiteness is their texture, which is full of small imperfections in a way that Ray’s girl is not. Review | The Met looks at the body, stripped of its old ‘whiteness’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z It’s about whiteness, the privileges that accompany it and the hierarchy that — as he saw growing up in Boston — rates Mayflower-descendant types as an aspirational American ideal. Review: ‘Just for Us’ Reaches Across the Chasm 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z It wasn’t just blackness that was being defined by the accretion of stereotypes and insults, it was whiteness. Perspective | ‘Black Panther’ is a revelation but also a reminder of what we’ve been missing 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z “I found myself outnumbered, surrounded by whiteness and so just felt othered,” he said. Telling Stories of Black Life Rescued Him 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z They equate being open-minded and liberal with inviting the poor black fatherless family into their rich whiteness and expecting Mia and Pearl to play along as they appropriate their pain. "Little Fires Everywhere" is a gripping, soapy reminder of that yesterday's ills are still present 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Part of the reason why Latinxs continue to lag behind white authors owes to the overwhelming whiteness of the publishing industry itself. What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z The shocking — or maybe not so shocking — whiteness of this year’s field of nominees exposes not only the myopia of the nominating body but also the deep structural biases of the industry that feeds it. Oscars So White? Or Oscars So Dumb? Discuss. 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z In view of recent history the whiteness of the 2011 Academy Awards is a little blinding. Film: Hollywood?s Whiteout Year: Few Blacks on Silver Screen 2011-02-12T06:53:01Z This would have been a perfect moment to postulate about Bowie's relationship to race – in a post-Rivers of Blood era what kind of whiteness did Ziggy embody? Ziggyology by Simon Goddard – review 2013-05-03T18:32:01Z Aristocrats consumed creatures and vegetables associated with the air, the sky, lightness and whiteness. Thanksgiving, medieval style: Give thanks that “Red Deer testicles” and “living eels in roasted pig” aren’t on the menu today 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z These extraordinary portraits and scenes are not quite documentary, but they pursue a truth about fear, pleasure, confusion, family history, and who and what whiteness feeds on in order to cohere. Rosalind Fox Solomon’s Color Line 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Would it have been more powerful, and perhaps less burdensome, for Rainer simply to talk about race herself, not filtered through a mythical figure and symbol of classicism’s whiteness? Review: Yvonne Rainer’s Swan Song Is Not Quite a Grand Finale 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Public discourse of the 21st century keeps on circling back to the itchy question of whiteness, rather like a child picking off a scab over and over again. What “Neighbors” and “Chef” can teach us about white male privilege 2014-05-10T16:30:00Z Maybe it will be more pardo, more whiteness, and then there will be shoe polish covering white tranquillity and powerfulness. How Rollerblading Propelled Maxwell Alexandre’s Art Career 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z But like "The White Lotus," "Kate" attempts to critique whiteness while using people of color — specifically, the hordes of Asian men and supposed criminals she slaughters one after another — as props, void of humanity. Netflix's Tokyo-set action flick "Kate" tries to critique imperialism while ultimately relying on it 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z His triumph is his inhabitation of whiteness, his searing articulations of its ruination, brutality and shame. The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z He’s not an aberration from whiteness, so to speak. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z This longstanding majority whiteness within the "Big Brother" house has resulted in a lot of easy breezy disparagement of minorities over the years. “Who Is America?” and “Big Brother” separately and together illuminate our racial divide 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z In 1870s America, “whiteness was defined by more than white skin,” Posner, who is Jewish, points out. The election is on everyone's mind as SCR presents 'All the Way' and 'District Merchants' 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z In “The Stone Face,” whiteness is not a “racial” trait; it is, rather, a synonym for situational privilege. “How Does It Feel To Be a White Man?”: William Gardner Smith’s Exile in Paris 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z But their adventures do prove the lie of that fisherman's declaration about money buying whiteness. The return of "Atlanta" is perfectly timed, delivering its sharp honesty when we need it most 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Although being complicit in the lie of whiteness was once easier in Ireland many summers ago, it’s now something I’m no longer prepared to do. Shedding my whiteness is a work in progress 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z It's a story of how whiteness exploits so-called love as a way to inflict unexplainable, unfathomable harm and destruction. “Killers of the Flower Moon’s” central love story illustrates the pitfalls of interracial dating 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z It's also a kind of manifesto and at various points a meditation on the nature of whiteness; its epigraph is from "Moby-Dick." 'The White Road' is an obsessive journey into the world of porcelain 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Bennett asks: What is the cost, to an individual and to a community, of the passing person’s estrangement from family, friends, culture and identity — all sacrificed to maintain an assumed whiteness? A Novel Imagines the Fate of Twin Sisters, One Passing for White 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z The curators extend their argument about whiteness and race to exclusion based on class and the division between high and low art or entertainment. Review | The Met looks at the body, stripped of its old ‘whiteness’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z It is framing it through the reflexive lens of whiteness. Missouri activists vs. the press is still a story about race: This is what happens when black students can’t trust the media 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Instead, the review extends a protective arm around Williams’s shoulder as Solomon welcomes Williams into the club of whiteness, where he need not worry his pretty head about race. Does Race Matter? Who Gets to Ask That Question? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Setting aside such episodes of racial panic, for the first two centuries or so of American history the fundamental whiteness of politics and power were simply atmospheric conditions, rarely noticed and barely worth talking about. America’s first white president 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z And while it’s probably obvious, maybe I should mention how much the fantasy about interchangeability is a fantasy of whiteness, of maleness, of privilege. Ben Lerner on Adolescence and His Forthcoming Novel 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z All that whiteness actually neutralizes the piece, rather than lets it stand out. | Damn White 2011-01-07T21:00:41Z In an early scene he acknowledges the benefit that his light skin affords him in white spaces, and how his parents' whiteness gains him privileges other Black peers didn't receive. Netflix's new Colin Kaepernick series is as ambitious but not quite as successful as its subject 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z One power that “Bombshell” and “The Loudest Voice” do not care to illuminate is whiteness. The Sexual Predator’s TV Wife 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z That said, there is a pervasive sense of whiteness and white, liberal femininity emitted by these strikes. Withholding sex is not the answer to abortion bans: The spectacle of celebrity "pro-choice" activism 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z While I adored my teachers, their identities presented roadblocks to a broader cultural exploration — whiteness permeated all aspects of my high school culinary curriculum, from the recipes to the techniques and even the equipment. Why a simple plantain press Is my most treasured kitchen tool 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z Du Bois was suggesting that even among low-wage white earners, the racial identity of whiteness paid dividends that people of color could not collect. Southern hospitality doesn’t always apply to Black people, as revealed in killing of Ahmaud Arbery 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Much of the outcry has revolved around how Turner’s whiteness, status as a prized athlete, and relative affluence may have influenced Judge Aaron Persky’s decision to hand him such an anemic sentence, and rightly so. Do it for Emily Doe: 10 ways to turn your Brock Turner anger into action 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z "And hyphenated Americans are different. We are so programmed to focus on whiteness that we don't think about what it means. We as Americans need to stop denying that this is a thing." Artist launches Reparations website and 'social experiment' on white privilege 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z America intentionally and unintentionally shoves whiteness down our throats every day, every minute, every second, and there's not much we can do about it, other than thoughtfully curating a child's experience. Why I'm passing on the "Barbie" movie: My daughter already receives enough unintentional whiteness 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Full lips, not downplayed to lean into idealized whiteness but, rather, emphasized with bright red lipstick. The Meaning of Selena 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z He is at home with his own discomfort and often explicitly uneasy about his privilege — notably, here, his whiteness in ’80s Harlem and his conservationism in countries recovering from colonialism. Review | Jonathan Franzen has some baggage. Does his latest essay collection rise above it? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z I hope that maybe there is still some of the whiteness and brightness from Banff in there somewhere though. Paperback Q&A: Jane Rogers on The Testament of Jessie Lamb 2012-08-21T14:38:26Z Kudos to lighting designer Michael Hulls for the simple but specific streams of whiteness on the performance circumference platform and for the hanging lighted halo above. Out of loss of flamenco star comes the magical 'Toro' at Irvine Barclay Theatre 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z All around the edges, the images dissolve into flat whiteness. Taysir Batniji's ghostly carvings at Barnsdall recall fallen brother 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z In their natural whiteness, produced with a 500-year-old technique of hemp lightened with the petals of a desert flower, the hand-cut pages resonate with craftsmanship. A Tender Tome of Travel History 2010-06-14T12:00:00Z But, I also think we should remember the earlier black plays that marked whiteness but to different ends. ‘Fairview’: Watching a Play in Black and White 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z That basically means that Spokane is getting solid B, maybe even a B+ in whiteness. “Damn, Rachel Dolezal. Even Vanilla Ice didn’t claim to BE black”: Kamau Bell and Adam Mansbach debate race 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z On closer inspection one became drawn in to a shimmering geometric expanse of almost whiteness. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z But there are people out there who — I guess because of their own fragile masculinity, their own fragile sense of whiteness — believe that “I just can’t say what I want to say anymore.” “There was a market for white resentment”: Tim Wise on Trump, David Duke and the bigotry that risen from the shadows 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z I'm not just talking about the overwhelming whiteness of the genre, but the specific type of girl who gets chased or who even gets featured. Mindy Kaling's smart teen sex romp "Never Have I Ever" may be her best series yet 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z The chromatic contrast between the inkiness of their cassocks and the room’s ascetic whiteness finds an echo in Rodrigues’s rigid dualism, a belief in absolutes that will be tested. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z For each splashy profile of the 30-year-old writer that has preceded publication, there is an equally pointed critique of her earnest mediocrity or the whiteness of her imagination. Review | Sally Rooney’s latest novel is a lucid, nuanced story about coming of age in a broken world 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z That doesn't treat whiteness as normative or neutral or desirable inherently but as one among many other fictions that we have to talk about and to engage. Jay-Z is ‘Robert Frost with a Brooklyn accent,’ a Georgetown professor writes in his new book 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Though Fleck is pursued and investigated by Gotham’s finest, his whiteness acts as a force field, protecting him as he engages in the violent acts of the latter half of the film. The Real Threat of ‘Joker’ Is Hiding in Plain Sight 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The film’s director, Boots Riley, is saying working class people of color use whiteness to get ahead. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z She lamented that “God and most Christian holy people artistically have been recreated in images of whiteness. This shrewd propaganda undeniably lessen the worthiness of most of the Earth’s people.” Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Sky, sky, sky, until its whiteness shades into autumn mist, which shades into what may be an iced-over lake. Chinese Landscapes at the Met: If Those Mountains Could Talk 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The movie, therefore, becomes a tragedy about whiteness and its desperate preservation. Plot Twist! Why 2004 Was a Surprising Year for Movies 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z It was one of my first interfaces with something called whiteness studies. Kehinde Wiley on Painting Masculinity and Blackness, from President Obama to the People of Ferguson 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z We cannot afford to wait on white people to save us — even the well-intentioned — because of how whiteness as a social construct operates to oppress us in this country. White allies, stop asking me if I'm OK. Black people are not OK 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z In one of the few sections of poetry in the collection, Rankine provides a stringent series of definitions of whiteness that is as emphatic and unrelenting as whiteness is in our cultural consciousness: Claudia Rankine on the Ways Race Haunts Her Imagination, and America’s 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z The old assumptions about whiteness being the "norm" for science fiction -- especially "golden age" and "hard sci-fi" -- still lingers. Comics author Brian K. Vaughan on his global hit "Saga" and making art in troubled times 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Those areas, when the paste is removed, glow with intense whiteness. In the galleries: Wells & Barnes offer many seats, but no place to sit down 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z To do that, Toni closed the door on what far too many writers and artists of color become preoccupied with when they make, directly or indirectly, “whiteness” their subject. Toni Morrison’s Truth 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Despite her whiteness and wealth, her baby will live in a world where his mother’s privilege will not always protect him. This nice Southern family has a body in the attic — literally 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z It was the strangers and new acquaintances who deliberately popped my protective bubble of whiteness time and time again. ‘My mum always told me I was white, like her. Now I know the truth’ 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z But the overall colour was a colourless all-colour of stained whiteness, deathly pale. Sea Story by AS Byatt 2013-03-15T13:58:58Z I watched the trailer and was overwhelmed with whiteness. Why I'm passing on the "Barbie" movie: My daughter already receives enough unintentional whiteness 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The whiteness of the hard rock world is felt immediately in this film. ‘Long Live Rock … Celebrate the Chaos’ Review: An Ode to Metal 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z I am here to make you reckon with your whiteness, your privilege and your power. Unapologetic Black women are taking back our power 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Because in allowing the students to proceed — although everyone I spoke to was too kind to say this — I was enabling the very whiteness I was internally resisting. White bro reading: Yes, I’m reading men and women equally — but they’re still mostly white 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z I grew up in Columbus, Ohio, in a culture of extreme whiteness. What it took to finally confront my family about race and politics 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z She portrays whiteness, not blackness, as the “other,” and refuses to see the revolution as more violent than the regime that provokes it. Review: ‘Les Blancs’ Is an Anguished Play for an Anguished Moment 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Though the whites are literally centered, the image nevertheless decenters whiteness, with the Black characters often obscuring them. Review: ‘Caroline, or Change’ Makes History’s Heartbreak Sing 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Still, the difference between the two lies in their approaches to the all-encompassing nature of whiteness in American industries and narratives. ‘Hamilton,’ ‘The Simpsons’ and the Problem With Colorblind Casting 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z In the original printing of “The Americans,” the content in this photograph is enhanced by the blown-out whiteness of everything in the frame except the black nurse’s face. Eight Photographers on Their Favorite Image from Robert Frank’s “The Americans” 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Three other essays talk about race and whiteness. Wesley Yang and the Search for Asian-American Visibility 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Goldberg exposed the "problem of doubleness" that many Jews of Ashkenzai descent face: this tension between the economic privileges of whiteness and the social marginalization of being Jewish. "Blacks and Jews" authors: "Whoopi is not the enemy" but "it may be too late" for America anyway 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Rankine's reliance on second-person point of view is grounded in Toni Morrison's assertion that the focus on the Black body as a racialized subject must be shifted toward a critique of whiteness. Best of 2020: George Floyd and the white gaze 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z “When you have people of colour as protagonists, the story is about their colour. With white people, it’s never about their whiteness.” Famous films re-edited to highlight Hollywood's race problem 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z In depicting real Black women and girls, Ms. Walker said she was looking to redress the dominance of whiteness in both Western art history and mainstream British history. Black Artists Look Beyond ‘Protest Art’ at British Shows 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Why were so many of these characters unflinching as their lives crumbled under the gaze of whiteness? In ‘This Other Eden,’ a Historical Tale of Paradise Lost 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Your eye gets taken to a place from which there is little to see — only the expanse of milky whiteness in the wax-covered, 11-foot sheet of paper, plus the pathway itself. At LACMA's Toba Khedoori show, enchanting mysteries burn beneath a fragile surface 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Whether right or wrong, and no matter how innocuous "the wrong," Blackness, under the watchful eye of whiteness, is forever suspect — the consequences of which are most always negative and oftentimes fatal. Best of 2020: George Floyd and the white gaze 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Part of what’s brought them to this identification of politicized whiteness is what’s brought so-called minorities to their racial politics: oppression and injustice and anger. Defining, and Proclaiming, a New Black Power 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z “It’s supposed to be comical. This is how whiteness deals with otherness.” Neil Greenberg’s New Dance ‘Betsy’ Is a Wild Child 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z How do you think about how to portray whiteness in your work? How These Black Playwrights Are Challenging American Theater 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Walking on the thick whiteness beneath the lightness of the fabric is exhilarating. Sam Moyer: ‘More Weight’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Glover's brother and fellow executive producer Stephen Glover wrote "Three Slaps," and that speech the white guy delivers about whiteness, and the sunken, forgotten town. The return of "Atlanta" is perfectly timed, delivering its sharp honesty when we need it most 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z What “Avatar” provides is a world untethered from any definition or perspective that values whiteness above all else. ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Imagines a World Free of Whiteness 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Before starting college, “I was already questioning my whiteness because of what other people said and because I was aware that I looked different from my family,” she said in a recent interview. ‘Little White Lie,’ Lacey Schwartz’s Film About Self-Discovery 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z He downplays structural racism and says that attachment to whiteness is not necessarily about power or a desire to be on top. New & Noteworthy, From Mo Rocca to George Wallace 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z There’s been a lot of discussion about the whiteness of critics, at this newspaper and elsewhere. How These Black Playwrights Are Challenging American Theater 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Decades of the studio system’s exclusion and marginalization of minorities from its stories abets the rewriting of history to not only emphasize whiteness but lionize it. HBO's "Watchmen" trolls history and heroic whiteness in the most extraordinary episode yet 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z There are famous stories about the neighbors being involved in the design process and the question of how white the building would or wouldn’t be, given the consistent whiteness of your work up until then. Richard Meier on the Getty Center as it turns 20 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z But to me, this is all part of a strange new landscape I am navigating, as I renegotiate both my singleness and my whiteness. Modern Love: Reorienting After a Relationship?s End 2012-05-20T13:34:35Z Scanning videos for blackface or searching text files for the n-word is so much easier than contending with, say, the systemic tokenism of TV rom-coms or the unbearable whiteness of Jane Austen. Review | While offensive TV shows get pulled, problematic books are still inspiring debate and conversation 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z "His unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor." Mat Johnson's satire of race in America, 'Loving Day,' is picked up by Showtime 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z When I read about these murders, I felt like I could finally see how whiteness worked. We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z “Rather than a single, enduring definition of whiteness,” Painter writes, “we find multiple enlargements occurring against a backdrop of black/white dichotomy.” Whiteness and “Making a Murderer”: Manitowoc, the “one-branch family tree” and the sinister race science of “degenerate whites” 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z They’re going after courses which examine topics such as the abolition of whiteness, the problem of whiteness or white racism. Professor targeted by right for teaching course on “white racism”: “These folks are delusio... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Even Mr. Kimmel remarked on the whiteness of the crowd, hard to achieve in today’s Toronto, one of the world’s most multicultural cities. For the Comedy Iconoclasts of ‘SCTV,’ a Joyful Reunion Tinged With Loss 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z “No one lives in this room/Without confronting the whiteness of the wall,” Maviel sings, sounding cool but tender. Drake and DaBaby Join Lil Yachty’s Shtick, and 8 More New Songs 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z In Goop Health is shockingly white – even to me, a blond, white person who went in expecting whiteness. 'Gwyneth glows like a radioactive swan' – my day at the Goop festival 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Brooks is not the only country artist in recent years to prod at the practical implications of the genre’s cultural narrowness, by which I mean its enduring whiteness. Garth Brooks: Country Music’s Square, Liberal Dad 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Here is one of Riley’s more elegant theses: whiteness is a remote and impossible and crazy-making hope. The Twisted Power of White Voice in “Sorry to Bother You” and “BlacKkKlansman” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z “Complications ensue. They move apart. Eventually the script calls for a crescendo. Blackness and whiteness collide, and the ending, for our Klansman, is an explosion.” ‘Life of a Klansman’ Tells Ugly Truths About America, Past and Present 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z The members of Proper are all Black, and in a genre where alienation is already top of mind, lyrics about navigating through whiteness stands out. Three emo bands fight the alienation of the online world by rocking out IRL 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z One reason “Just for Us” has resonated with audiences is that it’s one of the few new shows to dig into the relationship between Jews and whiteness. A Comic With Many Questions About Jews and Whiteness 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z She said her fruitless search for a Black master distiller led her to fully comprehend the overwhelming whiteness of the world of American spirits. A Black Whiskey Entrepreneur Will Help Bankroll Others Like Her 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Historically inspired stories have long elevated whiteness in literature, television and film. She is very brown: "Queen Charlotte" explains how the integrated ton was won, but what is left out? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z One is that they bolster the false notion that in order to arrive at some reconciliation about racism in America, Black people want white people to apologize for their whiteness. Take 2: White allies, here's another list of what to do and what not to do, or wear, or watch 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z But she wasn't a Hellenistic ruler immortalized by Shakespeare, removing her from the Greco-Roman foundation of classicism and, by extension, claims of whiteness. The question isn't why cast a Black Cleopatra but rather why not profile another African queen? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z In part, that’s because she alone is untroubled by her whiteness — or, really, by anything. Review: In ‘The Thanksgiving Play,’ Who Gets to Tell the Story? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z “It’s just fascinating to me as this metaphorical object of ‘pure whiteness’ — but it’s made with animal fat, pork fat, so it’s very unstable and changes.” With disco balls and gorgeously cinematic installations, this artist is creating deeply subversive work at the Frye 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Here was a woman reveling in her whiteness and assuming that her whiteness was some kind of shield against a disease that does not discriminate. Justine Sacco’s aftermath: The cost of Twitter outrage 2013-12-23T19:03:00Z Here, the proximity to whiteness is toxic, a danger, a threat. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Queenie’s story — her dissatisfaction with the overwhelming whiteness of her coven, her complex relationship with a resurrected slave owner — was cogent, humane, complex and compelling. ‘American Horror Story’ Season 5, Episode 11: Hotel California 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z And today, their places as seductive cultural icons who supposedly charmed their female victims are owed to their whiteness, too. We need to stop giving the Ted Bundy treatment to violent men like Billy Milligan 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z I wish writers would consider more deeply how whiteness is constructed in their work. Claudia Rankine Wishes More Writers Thought About Whiteness 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z What dangers could we conjure up that might put their whiteness in jeopardy? Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z But this entire season is about whiteness, and race, which are at the heart of the conversations we're having right now. When "Atlanta" Met the Northman: Executive producer Stefani Robinson breaks down the season finale 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z And contrary to what Neeson initially seemed to believe, his anecdote revealed nothing about blackness or revenge, but everything about how whiteness functions. Liam Neeson's "black b**tard" revenge fantasy and racism's violent truths 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z I started to pay attention in a way I hadn't been before, and as a result, I grew disgusted with wanting whiteness. The final blonde: My ongoing journey to decolonizing Barbie from my dress-up 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z The film points a finger directly at the greed of empire, and at the deliberate and elaborate social construction of whiteness to oppress, to ravage, to raze, to devastate, to occupy and to conquer. White Filmmakers Addressing (or Avoiding) Whiteness Onscreen 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The media I consume is often dominated by whiteness, and when it isn't, the characters still aren't my ethnicity. The final blonde: My ongoing journey to decolonizing Barbie from my dress-up 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z A few weeks ago, in reaction to something we had written about blackness and whiteness in recent movies, my colleague Manohla Dargis and I received a note from a reader. Review: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Will Make You Rethink Race 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z But cringe doesn't observe a schedule, as "The Bachelor" and its history of hanging on to its whiteness for dear life proves. From "The Bachelor" to "Bridgerton," examining the fraught dynamics of interracial romance on TV 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z “Never in my life have I checked only white. You cannot note my whiteness without acknowledging I am equal parts Chinese.” ‘Know My Name,’ a Sexual Assault Survivor Tells the World 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z But another Black girl who could be her twin enters the house, and that woman has a British accent, which in Coco's mind places her one step closer to whiteness. "Dear White People" visits the "Big Brother" Cookout via a pointed parody of reality show racism 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The recent riots on Capitol Hill should serve as a reminder that as long as statistics can be used to show differences between Blacks and whites, whiteness in American will continue to evolve. Wild myths I believed about white people: Notes on race, American ignorance and the Capitol riots 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Ultimately, this is the culmination of what we know whiteness to be. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z “This is not about whiteness,” Dr. Bond said. Medieval Scholars Spar on a Modern Battlefield: Twitter 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z In any event, photography is essentially naturalistic and a film based only on whiteness, least of all a soiled and blotchy one, was unthinkable. Peter Brook on A Midsummer Night's Dream: a cook and a concept 2013-04-15T14:28:03Z There has been lots of chatter about the whiteness of “Manchester.” The 2017 Oscar Nominations Don’t Matter but the Movies Do, More Than Ever 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z The cousins’ whiteness is mocked in an episode in which they kidnap the young Michael Jackson to give him a happier childhood. Review: ‘Time Traveling Bong,’ a Trip of Hazy Proportions 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Just as Beatrice became proud of her Britishness through her encounter with slavery, Iris became conscious of her whiteness through her relationship with Carl. An Intimate History of the British Empire 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The white baby is central to the overwhelming whiteness of the image—everything is milky but the woman’s skin, and both figures seem frozen in these roles. Eight Photographers on Their Favorite Image from Robert Frank’s “The Americans” 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Most of the action takes place in Europe, the birthplace of whiteness. The return of "Atlanta" is perfectly timed, delivering its sharp honesty when we need it most 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Trump’s defenders may wish to argue that he didn’t explicitly run as a candidate of whiteness. America’s first white president 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z And the overwhelming whiteness of inner-city Gotham, as well as that fact that all the women bar Pfeiffer are left to wallow in pitiful temptress roles, is something that has been rectified by their progenies. 'I'm sucking up your IQ!': what 90s Batman teaches us 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Despite their anti-establishment pose, the people who rallied around him align themselves with wealth, power and whiteness. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z I recall Toni Morrison's iconic 1993 interview with PBS's Charlie Rose, when she was asked her views on the problem with whiteness and the effects of racism on white identity: How racism found my son on Fortnite 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z Chatter about Alabama rapper Yelawolf mostly revolves around his countrified swagger and apparent whiteness. Alabama rapper Yelawolf releases major-label debut, 'Trunk Muzik 0-60' 2010-12-20T23:26:05Z Here, the fable and boogeyman are one in the same: whiteness. The return of "Atlanta" is perfectly timed, delivering its sharp honesty when we need it most 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Its very whiteness seems to breathe in the light. Joan Mir?: at home in exile 2011-04-08T23:05:56Z This decision, she said, using an acronym for people of color, “unconsciously held up a false narrative by assimilating non-Black POC folks into whiteness.” For Broadway’s ‘1776’ Revival, the Drama Is Offstage 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z And so whiteness, as it’s rendered now in hip-hop, is mostly implicit: draw too much attention to it, and risk being excluded. White Rappers Paying Homage to the Past 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z “Why do so many of you reflexively defend, identify w/, and antagonize on behalf of whiteness whenever blackness is involved?” he asked. 10 times Jesse Williams spoke out against racism, police brutality and injustice 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Rankine is warm but firm, starting with small talk about why people have dyed their hair before asking about the connections between blondness and whiteness. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z “There’s something unique about Trump’s whiteness and his masculinity,” explains Mona Chalabi of The Guardian. Marvel’s Trump agenda: Maybe it’s no accident that fans have to push for equality and diversity at every turn 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z A young woman in a floral-print skirt and flip-flops sprawls in sleep on an object covered by a sheet whose snowy whiteness intensifies the near blackness of her skin. Art Review: ?New Photography 2011? Features 6 Artists at MoMA - Review 2011-10-14T05:00:49Z I leveraged anything in my power — my whiteness, my femaleness — to diffuse the scene. The startling power of my "sweet" white lady voice. 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z There is no eluding it: Coleman destroyed a woman’s life by taking her child and using his wealth, power and whiteness against her. A boy caught between love and race 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z These attitudes about beauty, whiteness, purity and femininity still dominate American and Western society today, if perhaps in subtler forms. Condemn white supremacy? Great! But no special credit, white people 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The rank parsimony of insisting on Santa’s whiteness with such vehemence is an ironic way to defend the idea of selfless giving. The “real” Santa: Sometimes it’s a woman! 2013-12-18T18:08:00Z The members of this class are often as blind to the luxuries afforded by this parental basic income as they are to the luxuries afforded by whiteness. Refinery29, Kylie Jenner, and the Denial Underlying Millennial Financial Resentment 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “Memory, time, silence, words, and whiteness” were the essence of Cha’s art, wrote the art historian Moira Roth, as they are of Ms. Wu’s homage. 10 Galleries to Visit Now on the Lower East Side 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z With ironic paternalism, Baldwin habitually applied this sweet nothing to that set of permanent children proud of their whiteness. Reading James Baldwin in the Black Lives Matter era 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z The simplest and most effective way to maintain whiteness is to practise good oral hygiene. Five ways to get whiter teeth 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z What did my grandfather understand about whiteness that so many pretend they cannot? Akala: ‘As I grew up, I became embarrassed by my mother’s whiteness' 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z And before more accurate, illuminating images of whiteness can circulate, they must be made. Buck Ellison’s Great White Society 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z From there, the show progresses to a sequence of galleries that travel from whiteness to blackness. L.A. artist Rodney McMillian peels back the facade on the ultimate symbol of power: the White House 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z The core of the problem stems from ongoing intragroup debates among white Jews regarding their race in general and whiteness in particular. "Blacks and Jews" authors: "Whoopi is not the enemy" but "it may be too late" for America anyway 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z “While ‘The Bright Ages’ challenges some racist and fascist notions,” she wrote, “Europe, Christianity, and whiteness remain central themes,” while the authors “rely on their whiteness for authority.” Medieval Scholars Spar on a Modern Battlefield: Twitter 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z She also materializes as a mythical unicorn creature, a being that, in her mind, serves as an embodiment of whiteness. This is what happens when performance artist Karen Finley inhabits Trump and talks Weinstein 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Instead, he pivots to issues — specifically, on the opening track “Common Ground,” the issue of whiteness. Jack Harlow Goes Deep on Race and Rap, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z It’s an erasure firmly rooted in a film culture that, from its inception, has made a practice of denigrating and distorting black bodies, while elevating whiteness as its falsely “universal” standard. ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ and Hollywood’s enduring problem with whitewashing 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z There are barely any mentions of how whiteness shapes the Black experience in America. Review: ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ Preaches to the Choir 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z The aim of Miss Black America was to celebrate black women as beautiful, in defiance of American cultural norms that upheld whiteness as the standard of beauty. Miss America 1968: When civil rights and feminist activists converged on Atlantic City 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z In Breivik’s, Mair’s and Roof’s estimation — one shared, at least in spirit, by many mainstream conservatives — the nation is entirely conflated with whiteness and maleness. How white supremacist hatred drives acts of violence against powerful women 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z In this statement, and in her adaptation of blackness-as-flowing-hair, Dolezal exemplifies what Alice Jones’ lawyers missed: that as a white woman performing blackness, the category of whiteness is, at no point, under interrogation. What does it mean to be white?: Dylann Roof, Rachel Dolezal and the ugly legacy of the Rhinelander case 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The sun was shining; my eyes hurt from all the whiteness. “Sun Dogs” 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z For example, whites are a minority in California, to put it simply, and yet all realms of power are still dictated by whiteness or white supremacy. Professor targeted by right wing attack speaks out: “It was a blitzkrieg” 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z In the “Brujas” writers’ room, we talked about how proximity to whiteness becomes the goal. ‘Vida’: Tanya Saracho on Colorism and the ‘Authenticity Police’ 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z So did “Pym,” Mr. Johnson’s satirical novel about a biracial professor of American literature who embarks on a misadventure to discover how the idea of whiteness is constructed. Race Remixed: Pushing Boundaries, Mixed-Race Artists Gain Notice 2011-07-05T16:59:30Z A person is practically consigned to whiteness at birth: it becomes, like it or not, his métier. White bro reading: Yes, I’m reading men and women equally — but they’re still mostly white 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z He elaborated on Cooper’s whiteness: “Anderson Cooper is absolute whiteness. If you’re in a white-out blizzard, it looks like you bumped into Anderson Cooper on the street.” Watch Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon make the same Donald Sterling joke 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z The point about the oppressive whiteness of beauty standards was overwhelmed by the odd visual spectacle — two women competing to get harassed the most. The Sex-Ed Queens of YouTube Don’t Need a Ph.D. 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z This happens all the time, notably in all of the aforementioned examples, and is actually, dare I say, a good thing, by challenging whiteness as the long-held default. In defense of an East-Asian Velma in new HBO show 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z It is about salvation from whiteness and from sin. What the Church Meant for James Baldwin 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Almost all 12-year-olds are confused about who and what they are, but for David Greenfeld, at school, one conspicuous facet of his identity defines him: not his Green-ness, but his whiteness. Bridging the Racial Divide in a Middle School Friendship 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Thus, her 20th-century readers probably wouldn’t have searched for signifiers of whiteness, the “normative” identity. Toni Morrison’s Only Short Story Addresses Race by Avoiding Race 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z The whiteness and brightness of chalk, the composer has written, make it a medium ideal for drawing signs and leaving messages, but chalk crumbles, its signs and messages erode and turn to dust. An evening of sophisticated new Spanish music 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z The iPhone’s function depends on an enormous, complex, ugly superstructure of satellites and undersea cables that certainly are not designed in pristine whiteness. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z This artistic decision-making is just bizarre, since the show seems much better suited as a story of a woman of color taking on the whiteness, maleness and elitism of the university. How “The Chair” needs to do better by Sandra Oh 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z If blackness is perceived as something monstrous by America’s police, then whiteness is perceived as a type of innocence, an identity that is inherently benign and harmless. A 10-year-old boy? An 84-year-old grandmother? Police brutality will not end in America until cops stop perceiving blacks as monsters 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The others knew that whiteness could be conjured, and scorned, through the larynx alone. The Twisted Power of White Voice in “Sorry to Bother You” and “BlacKkKlansman” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z What are some of the ways that black and brown viewers make sense of "Game of Thrones" given how the show centers whiteness? "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z These terms basically support whiteness by rejecting, or devaluing, all other forms of experience, especially minority experience, because these other experiences are not abstract, they’re too subjective. How Can Blackness Construct America? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Not many white people are featured in the film, but the impact of whiteness on Black life permeates the screen. ‘Boyz N the Hood’ at 30: A Vivid Examination of Racism at Work 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z But why is whiteness as a construction never—why is it impossible to look at it? Kehinde Wiley on Painting Masculinity and Blackness, from President Obama to the People of Ferguson 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z One of them is that people should understand that in many ways Donald Trump is the manifestation of what black people have warned America about in regard to whiteness for some 300 years. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Here she is explaining racism in the United States: “Because America has long had a white majority, whiteness has been seen by some as an American trait.” A Trump Biography for Teens Is a New Lens on the President’s Totalizing Awfulness 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z I wish there was a turning point, some clear moment I assimilated, but the whiteness and privilege were my climate and I just changed. My dad said I wasn’t black enough. At last, I know what he meant | Raven Smith 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Striving to be a rapper in this city better known for indie rock, roots music and “Portlandia”-level whiteness was “super depressing,” he said. Meet Aminé, a Joyful Rapper With an Eye on Politics 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Does your enjoyment of a movie depend on the whiteness of the actors? Asian-American Actors Are Fighting for Visibility. They Will Not Be Ignored. 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Regardless of how it all shakes out, the nominations alone should remind us that the American record biz is still chillingly adept at using whiteness to sell blackness. White echoes: Rap, race and Iggy Azalea 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Church was a place where Black people could speak their pain or their rage, free of the endless and violent scrutiny of whiteness. What the Church Meant for James Baldwin 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z But their broad outline traced several of the biggest issues facing major media companies today, including the overwhelming whiteness of staff, the off-duty conduct of star reporters and a growing labor movement. Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings of ‘For Colored Nerds’ Play for Keeps 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Rather than witness the redefinition of whiteness, from Anglo-American to Euro-American to Euro-Latino-Asian American, I would rather live to see a truly post-racist America in which caste is completely expunged from culture and consciousness. Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t say the N-word 2012-06-05T15:45:00Z I didn't like talking about my whiteness but I was happy to partake of its privileges. We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Though supposed connoisseurs of whiteness, they cannot detect an impostor in their midst. The Twisted Power of White Voice in “Sorry to Bother You” and “BlacKkKlansman” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z That's the arresting opening sentence of Sharon Egretta Sutton’s “When Ivory Towers Were Black,” an unusual hybrid of memoir, institutional history and broadside against the entrenched whiteness of the architecture profession in this country. Challenging the whiteness of American architecture, in the 1960s and today 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Few creative selections kick conversational hornet's nests like a producer's decision to cast a person of color in a role long associated with whiteness. The question isn't why cast a Black Cleopatra but rather why not profile another African queen? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Rae Smith's beguiling design – pillars and verandas and whiteness – lets out the shadows behind its muslin curtains. Let the Right One In; The Amen Corner; Sweet Bird of Youth – review 2013-06-15T23:05:22Z I think she did make one high-level effort to disguise her whiteness. “Damn, Rachel Dolezal. Even Vanilla Ice didn’t claim to BE black”: Kamau Bell and Adam Mansbach debate race 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z The Scottish pools are "so still that there was a second sky in them"; when moths catch in the cobwebs in Corrag's hair, she says "my hair was wings and whiteness". Corrag by Susan Fletcher | Book review 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z If we want to deal with racism, we need to deal with whiteness. We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Such laws created social tiers of existence tied to the rightness of whiteness and the wrongness of blackness. Perspective | Trapped in while dining out: When white people make me part of their show 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Du Bois referred to this last practice as "the public and psychological wage of whiteness." Southern hospitality doesn’t always apply to Black people, as revealed in killing of Ahmaud Arbery 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Yet, when I flick through the newspapers, all I see is whiteness. It's time to boost ethnic minority representation in the media 2013-07-08T15:44:34Z But whiteness wasn’t just the absence of people of color. Perspective | N.C. Wyeth painted the world full of beauty, resilience and adventure. And full of white people. 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Elizabeth, born in 1881, became a celebrated orator on the Confederate circuit, extolling aging veterans as “grand old men who guarded with your lives the virgin whiteness of our Georgia.” The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z What audiences really need is some gentle prod to consider how the works on view tug at the heartstrings of whiteness. Review | NGA’s exhibit of Dutch marine art skates over issues of slavery and colonialism 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z They are, in the way that most TV shows and movies about American teens tend to be – meaning, they present whiteness as the default for Americanness and expect non-white teenagers to relate. "Never Have I Ever" returns smarter, funnier and at the mercy of its hormones more than ever 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z ABC has also run ads on BET to edge the show further away from the perception of whiteness. For Oscars Telecast, Few Black Nominees Mean Fewer Black Viewers 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Every article ever written about Colonial Williamsburg brings up the overwhelming whiteness of the visitor population. Colonial Williamsburg: Where the Tea Party gets schooled 2013-04-07T16:00:00Z They are also popular for the fact that they don’t bleed when cooked, lest you taint the whiteness of the potato salad or filet of sole that shares the plate. The hidden beauty of root veggies It also reflects a society in which nonwhite skin tones are proliferating, and whiteness, both as a construct and a fact, is changing and shrinking. Review: Stanley Whitney’s Paintings Reinvent the Grid 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z But more likely, the name was chosen for its association with whiteness. What does it mean to be a ‘Karen’? Karens explain 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Their escapes, and their ability to at different times evade arrest and imprisonment from our racist criminal justice system by not appearing "dangerous," are directly owed to their whiteness. We need to stop giving the Ted Bundy treatment to violent men like Billy Milligan 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z “Like the other half-caste children,” Gyasi writes, “he could not fully claim either half of himself, neither his father’s whiteness nor his mother’s blackness. Neither England nor the Gold Coast.” ‘Homegoing,’ by Yaa Gyasi: A bold tale of slavery for a new ‘Roots’ generation 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z A fine, but somewhat strained essay near the end of the book attempts to link commentary on Maine, privilege, whiteness and Black Lives Matter. In ‘Vacationland,’ John Hodgman confronts surrealism of adult life 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z The noirish lighting of the interiors contrasts with the whiteness of Kat’s nightmares of her mother buried alive in snow. Review: White Bird in a Blizzard: Snow Job for Shailene Woodley 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Inspired by James Baldwin’s essays, the novelist and poet threads his experiences of growing up in Trinidad and living in Korea with 18th-century slave narratives to explore institutional whiteness and “blame culture.” New & Noteworthy, From Christmas Stories to a Photographer Nanny 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Ware declined to comment, but shortly after Michele’s “Funny Girl” casting was announced, Ware posted a tweet in which she said, “Yes, Broadway upholds whiteness.” Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Well, making a big deal out that actor’s blonde whiteness means you’re bigot. The whitewashing of Allison Ng: “Aloha” isn’t alone in casting white actors in Asian roles 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z And this time, too, people are seeing their whiteness reflected back at themselves in ways that not only reveal their complicity, but their vulnerability. Black lives, white eyes: what's different this time is we're locked down and can't excuse it away 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z So, she asks, does this mean whiteness itself equals objectivity? "On the Trail" spotlights CNN's women reporters and prompts examination of campaign coverage bias 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Bizarrely, the white flagpoles carry gaudy stickers advertising the flagpole company, interrupting any flow of whiteness that the memorial might offer. The art of the war memorial: What should a monument to a past conflict do? 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Green is faced with a question; can he use whiteness? “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z “One thing Ms. Morrison always implored us to do as writers, as Black writers particularly, is to just see what happens if you don’t center whiteness. Just see what happens, you know?” How Hanif Abdurraqib Cuts Through the Noise 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z And yet hardly anyone is talking about race–specifically, the nearly monolithic whiteness of the media descending on the protesters’ encampment. Missouri activists vs. the press is still a story about race: This is what happens when black students can’t trust the media 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The apartheid segregation of the South ended after the upheavals following the passage of the Civil Rights Act, but a new strategy of whiteness emerged. We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z This phenomenon is about the best depiction of elite whiteness I’ve read, nailing the belonging derived from institutional affiliation, which is therefore impersonal and false, but manifests value in spite of this. A Black Graduate of an Elite Boarding School Gets Real 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z When Julia, in despair, cries out, “I don’t want any whiteness in my house,” you feel the house she means includes the one you’re sitting in. Review: ‘Wedding Band,’ a Searing Look at Miscegenation Nation 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z I don't have a good answer, other than it does make me sad that we wrote a show about whiteness, and are exposing these kinds of things. When "Atlanta" Met the Northman: Executive producer Stefani Robinson breaks down the season finale 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z But she was also commenting on another kind of whiteness. Review: Solange Turns the Guggenheim Into a Sanctuary for Dance 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z I was all too aware of my whiteness and all too aware of my privilege. “He shouldn’t be up there with Martin Luther King”: A mural of Freddie Gray with the civil rights leader provokes disgust, on my ride-along with the Baltimore Police 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z Bryant didn’t want to simply insert an island of Blackness into a sea of whiteness, leaving the island under threat of submersion. JAM, a Gate-Crashing Gallery, Expanded the Idea of Blackness 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Along these lines it’s worth pointing out that both this emblem of whiteness and this very white movie were created right in the middle of the civil rights movement. We Still Like It Hot 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Hurst's story and the films it inspired, including Douglas Sirk's 1959 classic, view the stories of people of color adopting the trappings of whiteness from the perspective of a white central character. Thanks to its stars, "Passing" is a masterpiece of subtle expression, rendered in black and white 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z A shellacking that lasted six months cost between $400 and $600—more than most laborers’ annual salary—to retain the dangerous ethereal whiteness. Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z For a group of minority authors and publishing insiders, it was high time to confront the unbearable whiteness of being. Analysis | 11 trends that changed the way we read this decade 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z For Bravo, whiteness is often treated as invisible and neutral. In ‘Zola,’ Janciza Bravo’s cinema of ‘life at high volume’ 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z In The Harbour from 1952, which Heron praised for its "animal vigour", a curved black line cuts up through whiteness – a jetty, but also perhaps a tongue or the shadow between two legs. William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z Whatever you think this whiteness is and all that y'all think, it's over. "My art is my activism": "Pose" star Billy Porter unleashes his passion and doesn't hold back 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z The litany of the Trump rally, “Lock her up!” and “Build the wall,” its call-and-response, re-affirms and celebrates membership in the cult of whiteness/America/Trump. Unraveling the cult of Trump: American people must once again take power into their own hands 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z The upheaval helped deepen the racial divide, connecting whiteness with rights and privileges, and blackness with slavery, disenfranchisement and poverty. Ashley Biden knows a presidential campaign is coming. For now, she’s talking hoodies and economic inequality. 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z So I put the coin in my pocket with the hope that Sacagawea’s spirit would guide my whiteness toward some useful purpose, but Sacagawea couldn’t even guide me toward not getting my car totaled. A year in my parents’ basement 2013-12-30T01:00:00Z “A white man is never defined by his whiteness and maleness,” continues Rosenberg, “whereas being female is treated as a defining facet.” Fight the power: how the female superhero is finally taking flight 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z “In the context of the balaclava fad, it’s not just whiteness — it’s the white femininity that is read as nonthreatening.” Balaclavas Are Trendy, but for Some Muslim Women It’s More Complicated 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z On its own, cod is a nice piece of fish, its whiteness in vivid contrast to an otherwise green scheme on the plate. Review | The Smith aims to please — and it does 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Hypodescent continues to inform our understanding of who is black and who isn’t, and who has the right to the privileges of whiteness. A Novel Imagines the Fate of Twin Sisters, One Passing for White 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Among other themes, the show holds up a mirror to those in the Black community who aspire to whiteness. The Evolution of Black Music, and a Man’s Soul, in One Show 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z As she enjoys a glass of iced tea on a breezy roof, which feels as relaxing and luxurious as her temporary vacation into whiteness, she suddenly notices a white woman staring at her. The Performance of Racial Passing 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z There's whiteness in America, but then the whiteness abroad is a different flavor. When "Atlanta" Met the Northman: Executive producer Stefani Robinson breaks down the season finale 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z "This ideal of whiteness even pops up when sort of men of color are utilizing disposable Black girlfriends." Remember her? Why your favorite Black female characters are being "summarily dismissed" 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Or, he added, “the overwhelming presence of whiteness.” Jordan Casteel Won’t Let You Look Away 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z “Invisible” is not only a personal restoration project; it’s the reclamation of a key figure in recent American history whose accomplishments “beat ceaselessly against the artificial but nearly impregnable barriers that whiteness built.” The Real-Life Heroine Who Inspired a Character on ‘Boardwalk Empire’ 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Watch: The author Claudia Rankine discusses cultural framing and “whiteness as a brand.” Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Transformations 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z His goal, he said, is “to not only be in the space of this music, but also questioning my relationship to those elements, interrogating my own whiteness.” The Sumptuous, Sour Music of Cory Smythe 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z And, as a Pakistani American, the 37-year-old has navigated an industry that privileges wealth and whiteness. Apps have turned restaurant work into a gig-economy hustle. Here’s how one cook chases a paycheck. 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Even if this defense didn’t presuppose that anything canon should not be open to challenge or reinterpretation, it would still fail to recognize that in many stories the character’s whiteness is incidental to the narrative. ‘Hamilton,’ ‘The Simpsons’ and the Problem With Colorblind Casting 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Rankine assumes the perspective of all Black women as a bold rhetorical gesture, to indict the presumed neutrality of whiteness and call out its ramifications. ‘Help’ Review: Blindfolds (and Kid Gloves) Off. Let’s Analyze Whiteness. 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z In an agonizing childhood moment of self-hatred, he realizes he is brown-skinned when faced with the blinding whiteness of the child actor playing the lead role in the British musical “Oliver!” What it means to be brown: Cheap labor, scapegoated Muslims and exploited immigrants, from Canada to Qatar 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The play takes place in a world in which race relations are subverted — whiteness is marginalized, and there’s brief derogatory talk of “beige babies” from the mothers, all of whom are women of color. ‘Mothers’ Review: Mommy and Me and the Apocalypse 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z The upshot is that whiteness is represented as the norm, which inevitably has a way of rendering everything else as “abnormal.” Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z How comfortable one must be in whiteness and privilege to even share a story like this in such a way. Liam Neeson's "black b**tard" revenge fantasy and racism's violent truths 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The problem here is that James Baldwin’s contribution to the understanding of whiteness is more or less erased. Sexist Silences and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Instead it fetishises an angry, misguided prison gang furiously clinging to its own whiteness as the one source of self-esteem they have left. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Inside The Aryan Brotherhood 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z Let’s face it: the language enacts the ethos of the whiteness about to torment the novel’s central character into oblivion. Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Then again, white people looking for some way to not feel like they’re complicit in a morally bankrupt racial hierarchy often seem to decide that the opposite of whiteness is blackness. “Damn, Rachel Dolezal. Even Vanilla Ice didn’t claim to BE black”: Kamau Bell and Adam Mansbach debate race 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Coco is presented as a foil to the wokeness of the main character, Sam: she is the black person fawning over whiteness with the shallow goal of getting cast on a reality TV show. Dear White People's biggest success? Getting to grips with colorism 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z A cellist and scholar of Russian classical music, Professor Ewell, 54, describes himself as an activist for racial, gender and social justice and a critic of whiteness in music theory. Obscure Musicology Journal Sparks Battles Over Race and Free Speech 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z He was a dark-skinned mestizo in a media environment that prizes whiteness above all. Juan Gabriel was a songwriter who knew how to channel the struggles of modern life and the hurt of the wounded 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Machine Gun Kelly’s most direct reference to his whiteness is actually a neat indirection. White Rappers Paying Homage to the Past 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z This is an addition to the drama’s overall intent of interrogating whiteness and white supremacy, certainly. A divine interlude in the tunnel of love: "Watchmen" and the intersection of comic books and faith 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z In the same way that prison abolition involves a grand reconsideration of categories and priorities, the abolition of whiteness will not happen overnight. We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Rankine was awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant last year, and said that she planned to use part of that prize money to explore whiteness. Claudia Rankine Wins Bobbitt Poetry Prize 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Most of it’s bizarre and has to do with sex and a sort of pure whiteness, particularly how, in both cases, Newton-John, who died on Monday at 73, was holding onto hers. Olivia Newton-John: That Headband Was a Crown 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z She speaks up for him when a cop needlessly asks for his I.D. during a traffic stop, and is quick to soothe his anxieties amid all the suburban whiteness of her parents’ world. Review: The Giant Leap Forward of Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z In order to preserve as much white power as possible, white people essentially agreed not to talk about whiteness anymore. We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z The film is presented as a feel-good, underdog sports drama but its critics say that the film serves as a vessel for how whiteness benefits from Black pain and struggle. Is "The Blind Side" a lie? Michael Oher's claims of an adoption that never happened, explained 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z To most comedians, material touching on race, racism, sexism or a culture of privilege — material about whiteness — is the equivalent of radioactive waste: It’s untouchable. He makes white privilege a punch line. Will America get the joke? 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z There’s a sort of privilege at work here; Ms. Dunham’s whiteness has allowed her the kind of access and indulgence rarely accorded women of color. 6 Ways ‘Girls’ Changed Television. Or Didn’t. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The self-imposed racial myopia that is created by whiteness and white privilege blinded him to that fact. White spaces, white privilege and white fear: Negrophobia still contaminates America 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z The show’s second season finds answers to challenging, under-examined questions like, where did the idea of “whiteness” come from? Listen to What They’re Saying 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Affleck’s playing someone who understands the power his whiteness affords; Jackson, in the thick of a prolific streak that he’s still on, has a lot to play here, including the character’s own well-strategized race cards. 2002: When the Rock Went Hollywood and Movie Stars Still Ruled 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Or maybe he had some notion of how the rest of the “Green Book” team would react to winning for a movie about a black man's experience with racism that centers whiteness. 2019 Oscars: Cringe-worthy "Green Book" Best Picture win marred an otherwise successful night 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Each time I benefited because of my whiteness, an African American paid because of his blackness. I am a recovering racist: I was somehow taught hate as a gift of love 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z And while he acknowledged that the theater-world reckoning over the whiteness of its leadership persuaded him it was time to leave, he departed on July 10 with what seems to be an unblemished record. Bidding Farewell to His Theatrical Flock 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z “I want to completely embrace my blackness / my whiteness.” Biracial composer searches for her ‘true name’ through piece for Northwest Corner Chamber Orchestra 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Whether challenging whiteness or misogyny within the black community, the author succeeds in her mission to tell “evocative stories that become a problem for power.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Despite the anger she has at whiteness, Coco finds friendship in a group of white women. Dear White People's biggest success? Getting to grips with colorism 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z “I’m not preoccupied with my whiteness,” Harlow said. Jack Harlow Knows What He Wants. And Where He Stands. 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Growing up in Queens among other South Asians, I innately understood whiteness to be like the pair of aspirational jeans that were always a few sizes too small. ‘Hala’ Is the Story of a Chameleon. It Reminded Me of Myself. 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z He suggested that if I were speaking to Mr. Craig, his “amazing co-star,” whiteness would not be a point of interest. For David Oyelowo, the Time Has Come to Play Othello 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Trump is a symbol of whiteness as self-conscious political power, in a way that none of those 43 other dudes even approaches — not even Ronald Reagan, the proto-Trump and whitest of all previous presidents. America’s first white president 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z In that moment, a silent rage was being used to put young privilege, or whiteness, in its place. The Black/White Oscars Moment That Really Hit Me Last Night 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z This is Rowland’s model: a spare aesthetic focused on everyday items, accompanied by research into their roots in racial capitalism and sometimes, interventions into the system that upholds whiteness. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Racism creates a double reflex, sometimes subtle and sometimes vulgar, where one hates whiteness but also desires its privileges. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Or, in the words of historian Walter Johnson, who is quoted in the exhibition, they “had been converted into a vast reserve for the cultivation of whiteness.” Review | The American Indian museum comes of age by tackling this country’s lies 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z She lamented that “God and most Christian holy people artistically have been recreated in images of whiteness. This shrewd propaganda undeniably lessen the worthiness of most of the Earth’s people.” Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z What I did not expect was how acutely I would come to feel my whiteness. What it took to finally confront my family about race and politics 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z But Hollywood’s addiction to normative whiteness looks particularly pathetic compared with the visual and symbolic narrative that we’ve all watched unspool over the Obama presidency. Has there been an ‘Obama effect’ in Hollywood? 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z This is why the “wages of whiteness” that came with such jobs are so highly prized and protected to this day. Who gets to borrow white privilege? This is what happens when an Asian-American cop kills an unarmed African-American 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z I had hoped this reboot would be more self-aware around the privileges of their whiteness and class positioning. "And Just Like That": How "Sex and the City" sequel broadens the representation of 50+ women on TV 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z There are other ways that whiteness informs Fleck’s character. The Real Threat of ‘Joker’ Is Hiding in Plain Sight 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z A current project of the institute is a multimedia exploration of whiteness, a concept that the films here either foreground or pointedly ignore. 3 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z A display about slavery in various areas of America oddly puts a year on the first conception of race: “Africans were ultimately defined as ‘enslaved for life,’ and the concept of whiteness began to develop.” The Smithsonian’s Black-History Museum Will Always Be a Failure and a Success 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z “It’s part of white supremacy, or holding up whiteness over other backgrounds,” Robinson said. Colorism reveals many shades of prejudice in Hollywood 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Both "Kate" and "The White Lotus" try their hand at subversive, anti-imperialist themes, while ultimately demonstrating the shortcomings of whiteness trying to critique itself. Netflix's Tokyo-set action flick "Kate" tries to critique imperialism while ultimately relying on it 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z William tried to clear his thoughts, to think of nothing, just whiteness, no, not whiteness – blue, sky blue, a flock of silent birds. Fancy dress by Kate Horsley 2010-12-26T00:05:12Z The fact that Thomas holds out systemic whiteness as a positive social good while reinforcing the message that mass industrialization is the key to prosperity? Thomas the Tank Engine, neocolonial fantasy: What his new international pals, and the backlash against them, signal 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z What remained was the whiteness of the presentation — the salt, the walls, the white pajamas Koh wears and the shirt sleeves of the gallery’s staff. | Terence Koh's 'Tink Tank' 2011-02-24T23:00:05Z As such ,the psychological wages of whiteness can be used to manipulate whites to work against their own self-interest. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z For a city and a label so closely identified with whiteness and grunge, it's a big realization. Shabazz Palaces enters unconventional partnership with Sub Pop 2010-09-02T15:41:00Z A step toward progress would be white people actually confronting their own biases and racism, working to dismantle those beliefs and to understand why whiteness is a weapon that needs to be banned. My college's response to a Nazi march taught me about the "true America" 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z This year, the discussion around the Academy Awards was all about the unbearable whiteness of being an acting nominee. Tony Awards 2015: Yet another British invasion of America 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The lighting, by Kate McGee, draws on a whole palette of luminosity, from the lone ghost light standing sentry to the dazzling whiteness that emanates, for a few startling moments, from beneath the stage. Review: Kafka With Puppets, Ghost Light and Shadows 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z On a sunny day in Pasadena a few weeks ago, the members of the Multi-Ethnic Media Coalition are holding a news conference to decry the overwhelming whiteness of Hollywood films. A guide to making Hollywood less white, by the filmmakers who have done it 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z She throws just as much light on the school’s whiteness. A Black Graduate of an Elite Boarding School Gets Real 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z And now, it’s like, ‘Well, maybe not, maybe an interracial relationship is an attack on whiteness.’ The Big Sick's Kumail Najiani and Emily Gordon: 'In America, the idea of a cross-cultural relationship is still controversial' 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z In this view, getting actors of color to play mythical beings who used to be portrayed as white is one more reminder that whiteness, in the real world, is no longer the unexamined cultural default. Guess Who’s Coming to Mordor 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Colonial law quickly made a distinction between indentured servants and slaves and in so doing invented whiteness in America. Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Narcissus, she proposes, can tell us something about the self-regard of whiteness. Grada Kilomba’s Rituals of Resistance 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z “There is something wild-eyed about whiteness right now, at this moment in history,” Imani Perry writes in “Breathe,” a letter to her sons. In Letters to the World, a New Wave of Memoirs Draws on the Intimate 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Mainstream horror still doesn’t feature many Black leads, so “Spiral” is a welcome departure from the genre’s whiteness. What to Know About ‘Spiral’ and the ‘Saw’ Franchise 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z In many ways, their demands echo trends originally sparked by colonial-era ideas about race and whiteness. When Burkina Faso Vibrated with a New Culture 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Flight allows whiteness to function as if it were universal, a stand-in for “human,” rather than a particular racial category that relies on blackness for its expression. Reading the Hidden Racial Life of American Fiction 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Marutani opened his arguments by questioning the concept of whiteness as defined under Virginia law, which barred white residents from marrying anyone who had any “trace whatsoever of any blood other than Caucasian.” An Unsung Hero in the Story of Interracial Marriage 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z It could have been interesting to see more concretely how Neveah grapples with body image expectations in a sphere that has long prized thinness and whiteness. Netflix's "Tiny Pretty Things" challenges the idea that bulimia is only a white woman's disease 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z This brand of feminism, like whiteness itself, is considered to be the default vision of female empowerment, with the understanding that if white women rise, all women rise. Weaponized white feminism in "The Handmaid's Tale" and "When They See Us" 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z But the unbearable whiteness of this film isn't especially surprising or offensive, just depressingly lazy and unimaginative. "Prince of Persia" royally blows it 2010-05-28T00:20:00Z As Toni Morrison explained in her book "Playing in the Dark," whiteness is terror for nonwhites. Donald Trump voter family values: Trump’s supporters are teaching their kids to embrace bigotry 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Now, maybe for the first time, white brothers and sisters can see in Trump's face, in his body, through his actions, as a result of his governance, just how horrible whiteness in general is. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s collective whiteness that’s at stake here, because white folks as a group would like to exempt themselves from the specific species and variety of white animus that they see going on there. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z “They were incensed by my Blackness challenging their whiteness.” Obscure Musicology Journal Sparks Battles Over Race and Free Speech 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z It also helps thread what becomes central to the narrative: navigating whiteness in the art world. Nia DaCosta on ‘Candyman’ and the Power of Terrifying Legends 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z His sculpture, hyperemotional and vividly colored, is challenging, especially to modern sensibilities more accustomed to the blank whiteness of marble, or the monochrome luster of bronze. Review | This 16-century Spanish sculptor changed how his country looked at religious art 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z “I could no more make them understand how it felt to be a Korean American adoptee than they could transfer their whiteness to me.” A Transcendent Memoir About Family, Class and the Contours of Loss 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Because it’s how we’ve come to identify the women who, as a writer for the Root put it, treat 911 as “the technical support number for whiteness.” Perspective | The point we’re missing about ‘BBQ Becky’ and her sisters 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ancestral verification was an upper-class sorting mechanism designed to preserve their definition of whiteness, excluding recently arrived European immigrants. Angela Davis shows us why "Finding Your Roots" complicates and strengthens the American story 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z It's not a love story — it's a story of how whiteness exploits so-called love as a way to inflict unexplainable, unfathomable harm and destruction. “Killers of the Flower Moon’s” central love story illustrates the pitfalls of interracial dating 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Not until the 1960s did Democrats expand their mission decisively beyond what contemporary historians have called “egalitarian whiteness,” and not until the 1970s did they fully commit themselves to women’s rights. The Democrats’ Historic Successes and Contemporary Failures 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z “Gary Garrels’s comment,” she continued, “was upsetting because he was making it explicit, whiteness will still be at the center of the institution.” Its Top Curator Gone, SFMOMA Reviews Its Record on Race 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z He had the support of his rich, influential uncle, doctors and bankers to inflict this harm onto Mollie and her family almost entirely without repercussion because of his whiteness and her Osageness. “Killers of the Flower Moon’s” central love story illustrates the pitfalls of interracial dating 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z In the end, it’s not whiteness and blackness that Key and Peele are spoofing, but the cliches that have grown calcified around those notions: White people are stiff and soulless; black people are violent criminals. Key and Peele’s ‘Keanu’ uses the story of a cute cat to challenge racial stereotypes 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Thompson and Negga’s casting certainly redresses some recent concerns about whitewashing in cinema, but how they will perform whiteness remains a matter of intrigue. 'Passing for white': how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Is it possible to conceive of whiteness without lapsing into white supremacy? Perspective | N.C. Wyeth painted the world full of beauty, resilience and adventure. And full of white people. 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z I expected a staged, even canned collision between absolutist Germanic modernism and contemporary culture, or between whiteness and blackness; what I discovered was closer to a three-dimensional essay on various approaches to symmetry and precision. In Chicago, an ambitious biennial for architecture banishes the stars and anoints a new generation 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z As an example, Ms. Morrison wrote of simple day-to-day assumptions that accompany whiteness, including the “confidence that you will not be watched in a department store.” What Is the Color of Beauty? 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Amma turns around in her mind the implied whiteness of a British accent. ‘Girl, Woman, Other,’ a Big, Busy Novel About New Ways of Living 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Rankine's reliance on second-person point of view is grounded in Toni Morrison's assertion that the focus on the black body as a racialized subject must be shifted toward a critique of whiteness. Now that another black body has been laid to rest: George Floyd and the white gaze 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Clinton was actually right in that categorization of the Trump voters, but because we infantilize and romanticize and cover up whiteness and white anxiety and white rage, it wasn't racism. The "race-obsessed liberal" nightmare: "We have to fight for a country that doesn't love us back" 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z But I do think the way we talk about whiteness is a barrier to progress. How whites should talk about white privilege: (Hint, it’s not like Tal Fortgang) 2014-05-07T11:45:00Z Yet they also caution that focussing solely on depictions of race onstage may be myopic, given the overwhelming whiteness of opera’s performers, composers, directors, and administrators. A Small Step Toward Correcting the Overwhelming Whiteness of Opera 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Whether challenging whiteness or misogyny within the black community, McMillan Cottom succeeds in her mission to tell “evocative stories that become a problem for power.” Five Essay Collections by Women of Color 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Their presence remedies the original’s blinding whiteness, though if the promotional materials are any indication, not its appetitive glamour and unacknowledged privilege. ‘And Just Like That’: The Shoe Must Go On 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z "We were sort of stumbling upon this idea ... that whiteness is a curse as well." When "Atlanta" Met the Northman: Executive producer Stefani Robinson breaks down the season finale 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z Tired of the old routines, of programs announced far in advance that run through an overture, a concerto and a symphony, Gaffigan is also bothered by orchestras that refuse to reckon with their whiteness. A Conductor Comes Into His Own in the Opera Pit 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z “To Trump whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power,” he writes in the final essay here, recently published to much attention in The Atlantic. Through the Lens of the Obama Years, Ta-Nehisi Coates Reckons With Race, Identity and Trump 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z In addition, his genius brought a welcome alternative to the predominant whiteness of Western art history. Review: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Unknown Notebooks’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Colonialism was not just about colonising whiteness, but about colonising the gender binary model.” Laverne Cox: 'Now I have the money to feminise my face I don’t want to. I’m happy' 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z What follows is a twisty thriller and a scorching indictment of the publishing industry’s pervasive whiteness and racial blind spots. She Wrote a Blistering Satire About Publishing. The Publishing Industry Loves It. 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z “The stunning, uniform whiteness of the crowd is not lost on the rest of us who also make up the many communities of America,” Wajahat Ali tweeted. Today, We March 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z His point is that his show aims to “have the conversation about Jews in their place on that spectrum of whiteness without having a conversation about victimhood.” A Comic With Many Questions About Jews and Whiteness 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Back then, similar to now, blacks were taught to praise whiteness — white religions and gods, white traditions, white ideals. No, white people, you still can’t say the N-word: That word belongs to black people and our culture now — not yours 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z One of the questions the scene implicitly raises is whether there are or should be defined categories of “whiteness” and “blackness”. Jordan Peele on making a hit comedy-horror movie out of America’s racial tensions 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z It was an inquiry into race, performance, and whiteness as a normative social construct. Thomas the Tank Engine, neocolonial fantasy: What his new international pals, and the backlash against them, signal 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The success of Ansari’s show is important, because it demonstrates that it’s possible to find a viewership without hewing to shopworn yet comforting narratives that uncritically reinforce norms invested in cultural whiteness. The next “Master of None”: “#Josh,” a dramedy about Haitian-American millennials in Miami coming from Project Greenlight 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z It's about who is and isn't credible as a storyteller in a media ecosystem and greater society centered around whiteness and maleness. Who should cover stories about sexual violence? 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z There’s a way to watch “Friends” so that its very whiteness — and the associated entitlement — is the problem. ‘Friends’ Is Turning 25. Here’s Why We Can’t Stop Watching it. 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z But it’s primarily the piece’s whiteness, in combination with its flatness, that gives it the illusionistic malleability of a painting without relinquishing the solid presence of sculpture. For David Smith, Sculptor and Painter, a Happy Equilibrium in White 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Big Red himself is a big, handsome MacGuffin, symbolic window dressing for a quasi-inspirational fantasia of American whiteness and power. "Secretariat": A gorgeous, creepy American myth 2010-10-07T00:30:00Z But does anyone’s whiteness or privilege mean that she can’t even make a veiled, asterisked reference to the title of a song? Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t say the N-word 2012-06-05T15:45:00Z However, he said he stood by his suggestion that Secretariat's "idealised vision of normal life" represents a "fantasia of American whiteness and power". 'Nazi' row engulfs Disney film about champion racehorse Secretariat 2010-10-11T11:49:00Z It is the direct opposite of the white entitlement and white privilege which presumes the inherently benign nature of whiteness and the dangerousness of black and brown people. White spaces, white privilege and white fear: Negrophobia still contaminates America 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z For most of my life, the primary experience of whiteness was not having to think about race at all. We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Because of my whiteness, I didn't have negative interactions with police. The startling power of my "sweet" white lady voice. 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z By the time she’s graduated from the American machine, she may link whiteness to racism. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z But for white people in general, the whiteness of political power was either invisible, irrelevant or a shameful secret to be jealously protected. America’s first white president 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z You're sort of spot on with everything as the exploration of whiteness. When "Atlanta" Met the Northman: Executive producer Stefani Robinson breaks down the season finale 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z At the same time that black artists are coming into a sharper phase of their blackness, white Americans are coming into their whiteness, reckoning with it and embracing it. Defining, and Proclaiming, a New Black Power 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z With “Black Panther,” Nyong’o was part of a seismic shift away from whiteness as the unquestioned default in American popular cinema. This Is Lupita Nyong’o. Hollywood, Please Keep Up. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Architectural theories involving autonomy and critical distance basically support whiteness by rejecting other forms of experience — the Black experience, the Native American experience — because these other experiences are not abstract, they’re too subjective. How Can Blackness Construct America? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z After years in prep school, they thought too much whiteness had seeped into me. Donald Glover: how the star of Atlanta proved that I too could be cool 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z And Kondabolu’s niche — talking about race, and social justice, about whiteness — is what may finally bring his voice to the masses. He makes white privilege a punch line. Will America get the joke? 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The whiteness of marble creates an ethereal, cloud-like quality: hence the title. The best of Louise Bourgeois 2010-06-01T14:06:00Z Ms. Piela added that though the balaclava trend has been embraced by people of all racial backgrounds, “it is the whiteness of some wearers that makes it mainstream, conventional.” Balaclavas Are Trendy, but for Some Muslim Women It’s More Complicated 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z A conversation about generational wealth in America is, of course, a conversation about whiteness. Refinery29, Kylie Jenner, and the Denial Underlying Millennial Financial Resentment 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Nguyen’s narrator is a sophisticated tour guide into what he calls “the heart of whiteness.” Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z It is the social, political and economic system that privileges whiteness above and over other racial identities. Professor targeted by right wing attack speaks out: “It was a blitzkrieg” 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z And was it, after all, whiteness that was the problem? Review | The Met looks at the body, stripped of its old ‘whiteness’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Timberlake’s implied “rebranding” seemed to embrace his whiteness — alarming to many, in this era of reactionary viral outrage, because his success as a solo artist came from his embrace of black culture. Review | Justin Timberlake may feel at home in the woods, but the arena is where he shines 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z I will say it, in all my lush, creamy whiteness: @Yandy, you should take down your disgusting "Indian" and "Mexican" costumes. Yandy's 'sexy Native American' costume sparks Twitter backlash: 'You're filth' 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Kohan presumably intended the character to serve as a heightened parody of pampered upper-crust whiteness to put the rest of the prisoners into context. White privilege rules Litchfield — and Piper isn’t even the best example anymore 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Then again, some Jews – notice I said some – in the United States have embraced whiteness whole hog. "Blacks and Jews" authors: "Whoopi is not the enemy" but "it may be too late" for America anyway 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Trump is the first president defined by whiteness, the first whose glaring and overwhelming whiteness is a salient issue that lies at the core of his appeal. America’s first white president 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Like literary form, whiteness is an imaginary construct, or set of constructs, that we perform and embody. White bro reading: Yes, I’m reading men and women equally — but they’re still mostly white 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z This is not a drastic approach or a political agenda, but a call to open up spaces for conversations about racism, about whiteness, about race with white people listening. "Y’all are coming at this like we’re racists": how "Survivor" highlights the pulse of socialization 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z Humor was the “safety measure I put in place so I didn’t have to endure accusations of trying to write whiteness,” she said. A Crop of New Novels About Race and Racism Finds Freedom in Satire 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z The preternatural, industrial whiteness of Ray’s work makes one wonder exactly how white the old “white” classical statues actually were. Review | The Met looks at the body, stripped of its old ‘whiteness’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z It sought to ensure “that these organizations are not bastions of whiteness,” she said. She’s Been a Force for Change in Ballet. The World Is Catching Up. 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z His whiteness, his money, but most importantly, America’s lack of respect for women and culture of objectification, allowed Turner to get off easy. Nate Parker is not a victim: “The Birth of a Nation” filmmaker needs to stop talking about his innocence 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z They sounded like more pandering — pandering to institutional whiteness, which sustains the business of publishing. “Your manuscript is not a good fit”: How “we need diverse books” can move beyond wishful thinking 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Any student of history or American culture knows our nation’s lust for controlling narratives and pushing perspectives that promote and glorify whiteness. No, white people, you still can’t say the N-word: That word belongs to black people and our culture now — not yours 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Activate your white audiences to talk about whiteness. Four Black Artists on How Racism Corrodes the Theater World 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Under this system, proximity to whiteness could increase your chances for freedom. Why black people discriminate among ourselves: the toxic legacy of colorism 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z The subtext, both with Trump supporters and in these two novels, is whiteness—and the sense of entitlement, the powerful claim to earning power, that whiteness in America often brings. Novels of White Status Anxiety 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z From the very creation of whiteness, whites have been worried about some "great replacement," which could justify extreme violence. We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z That’s not surprising: Rankine is, after all, a scholar of whiteness, who teaches a class on the subject at Yale and is the founder of the Racial Imaginary Institute. Claudia Rankine on the Ways Race Haunts Her Imagination, and America’s 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Ultimately, she wrote, in a version later posted on Medium, “the language and the core themes of the book don’t reveal brightness so much as ‘whiteness.’” Medieval Scholars Spar on a Modern Battlefield: Twitter 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Researchers who studied the event found that most of the ensuing media coverage focused solely on the incident itself and provided little insight to address the forms of whiteness and patriarchy ingrained in pro tennis. Serena Williams forced journalists to get out of the "toy box" and cover tennis as more than a game 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z For years, without even realizing it, I worked to remain in proximity to whiteness. The final blonde: My ongoing journey to decolonizing Barbie from my dress-up 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Yet the blinding whiteness of the Oscars this year meshes with another infuriating long-term pattern: the whiting-out of movies about black experience. The Oscar Whiteness Machine 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z She’s passing or, rather, her white colleagues just assume her whiteness. A Film Series Honors Black Women Directors 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The backlash against "CRT" and the 1619 Project have shown how powerful it can be simply to name whiteness and outline the way it uses power. We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Nationally, militant whiteness is out in the open again. A Victory for the Civil War ‘Cyclorama’ 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z After all, our current president wears his whiteness like a coat during January in Chicago, and only looks out for the rich because he is rich. I don't care "how black" Kamala Harris is and neither should you 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z "There is something to say about colorism that emerges right within this sort of landscape. This ideal of whiteness even pops up when sort of men of color are utilizing disposable Black girlfriends," Monk-Payton said. Remember her? Why your favorite Black female characters are being "summarily dismissed" 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Wiley’s highly finished images use not just the medium of painting but often the poses and trappings of European elites to create a satire on the exclusion and whiteness of the art world. Review | An artist who summons black faces and bodies at ease in the world 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z This is a dark and defensive descant to a more substantial and necessary conversation about whiteness in America. Perspective | N.C. Wyeth painted the world full of beauty, resilience and adventure. And full of white people. 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z In the 15th outing for his iconic private detective, Easy Rawlins, Mosley once again chronicles a part of America rendered invisible — and overpowered — by whiteness. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z They too fear cultural appropriation, except that in this case it means the loss of the privileges that were long a benefit of whiteness, privileges which people of color appear to be taking. Cultural appropriation: It's about more than pho and sombreros 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z More white artists who SEE and express whiteness in as vivid color as they do other cultures and experiences. Review: ‘A Room in India’ Overflows With Astonishing Visions 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Her casting and Williams' also rectifies the overwhelming whiteness of the original cast by adding two dynamic figures providing other missions to chase than past glory. The "Party Down" cater waiters are back, but has the now-famous cast outgrown the pink bow ties? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z But student has little to say about whiteness, or foreignness. New Music: New Albums by Iggy Azalea, Kelis and Glen David Andrews 2014-04-21T22:02:03Z “From the beginning, my own whiteness was a huge thing to reconcile, or at least grapple with, in the construction of the film,” he says. Nakhane: 'For as long as I need to, I'm going to talk about being a gay artist' 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z More importantly, they aren't trying to be white, play white, or imitate whiteness like many films with black leads in the past tried to do. "The Photograph" is more than just a romance – it's a much-needed picture of black excellence 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z There is raging debate over the future of Confederate monuments, the treatment of women and the significance of whiteness. This is what happens when performance artist Karen Finley inhabits Trump and talks Weinstein 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Coates appears to echo — and add his unique take to — a strain of thinking about whiteness as a concept more closely knit to power and social status than actual skin color. With Atlantic article on reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates sees payoff for years of struggle The critique of institutional whiteness is everywhere now. “Your manuscript is not a good fit”: How “we need diverse books” can move beyond wishful thinking 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Certainly the whiteness of country music has never seemed like a barrier to me.” ‘Major Labels’ Wraps Popular Music — All of It — in a Warm Embrace 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Much as, in my writing, I often bristle at the constraints of genre, I also find myself objecting to, and pushing against, the way whiteness delimits me, and those around me. White bro reading: Yes, I’m reading men and women equally — but they’re still mostly white 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z When she went to study politics at the University of Bristol she struggled with the all-encompassing whiteness her student experience entailed. 'We are offering something people didn’t get before': inside gal-dem 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z In “Just for Us,” Edelman, a Massachusetts native and N.Y.U. alum, tells the tale of his adventure, questioning his Judaism and his whiteness along the way. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z What does leave “a bad taste” in Tarantino’s mouth, he says, is the implication that his own whiteness disqualifies him from engaging with black culture at all. The Quentin Tarantino race debate isn't black and white 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z They were still flying through whiteness, so there was no horizon to judge their angle by, but the three of them in the row were definitely canted over, once and then again. The Weight 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The whiteness is the manifestation of a genetic condition that draws the pigment from the fur. A Christmas miracle? Photographer spots rare white reindeer 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Although Fleck is pursued by law enforcement for his alleged crimes, "his whiteness acts as a force field, protecting him as he engages in the violent acts of the latter half of the film." "Joker" and white male rage 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Whether right or wrong, and no matter how innocuous "the wrong," blackness, under the watchful eye of whiteness, is forever suspect — the consequences of which are most always negative and oftentimes fatal. Now that another black body has been laid to rest: George Floyd and the white gaze 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Or did Handler think this detail was relevant only because he presumed we’d assume whiteness as the default for every other character? 'Bottle Grove,' by Daniel Handler book review - The Washington Post 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Oppositely, our city's overriding whiteness allows white musicians to express themselves to mostly white audiences. Seattle folk music and hard times: an ongoing love story -- but is it racial? 2011-04-27T20:33:37Z What Hughes called “this urge within the race toward whiteness” begins in childhood. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z From the conditions of this politicked body — the queer condition, the working-class condition, conditions of whiteness or non-whiteness and gender in motion — Myles questions where we began or must begin again. From an Iconoclast and an Icon, Poems of Personal and Public Transformation 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z A few days later on the phone, I asked her if she had seen the original series — she had — and if its overwhelming whiteness had bothered her. ‘And Just Like That’: The Shoe Must Go On 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Cordier’s work wasn’t successful, but it was an example of what might be called partial “resistance” to the category of whiteness. Review | The Met looks at the body, stripped of its old ‘whiteness’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z He knows something larger has played out, something symbolic, which required his actions, his youth, his victim’s whiteness, but nothing of his actual self. 2 Novels by ‘Alternative Nobel’ Winner Take On Power and Its Abuses 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z In the Kansas City underworld, Rabbi may be less-than, but beyond the places where he's known, he enjoys the benefits of whiteness, like walking down a small town's street without being bothered or threatened. "Fargo" season 4 has spun a complex, compelling American fable of race and crime 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z Everything I had repressed, the shame and ignominy, the miasma of whiteness had returned in the form of fury. We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z The horizon is whiteness, blankness; there are hardly any houses. The Empty Family 2010-08-27T23:04:00Z At the toxic extreme, some seek the closest proximity to whiteness they can achieve to experience as many of its benefits as possible. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Baldwin wrote about American racism — about the lethal and insidious power of whiteness to distort the nation’s ideals and threaten its humanity — with unequaled vigor, humor and insight. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The child of a Caribbean immigrant mother, I was taught that assimilation was the key to success and “whiteness” was assimilation’s default. I fell in love with a Salon commenter 2013-12-10T00:00:00Z I didn't like talking about my whiteness but I was happy to partake of its privileges. We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Much of “White Fragility” is dedicated to pulling back the veil on these so-called pillars of whiteness: assumptions that prop up racist beliefs without our realizing it. A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z In other words, white feminism leverages whiteness and a proximity to white men to exclude and disavow women of color. Taylor Swift and the ways white women exploit allyship 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z But it is more likely that the unscientific but powerful cultural category of “whiteness” will be enlarged to include Hispanics and Asians and their children as “non-Hispanic whites.” Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t say the N-word 2012-06-05T15:45:00Z What’s notable is how artists like Mac Miller and Cam Meekins all but ignore the fact of their whiteness in their rhymes, or nod to it only obliquely. White Rappers Paying Homage to the Past 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z Meanwhile, for actual white users, DNA testing services helpfully atomize whiteness into a series of percentage-point allegiances to various European countries. The Racial Spectacle of DNA Test Result Videos 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z Black people have for decades self-corralled to follow the rules of colorism: thinner noses and lips, looser curls, lighter eyes, general proximity to whiteness is seen as more valuable and desirable. I am not your exotic unicorn: going on Tinder as a queer, dark-skinned black woman 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z It questions whether those of us who have light-skin privilege should be passing judgment against those who do not for the way they navigate whiteness in their daily lives. Dear White People's biggest success? Getting to grips with colorism 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z He wants us to understand that although whiteness is both power and property, he has fought his way through it. “An outburst of emotions black America can relate to”: Kendrick Lamar’s newest release feels like the back story to his masterpiece, “To Pimp a Butterfly” 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z For me that whiteness was the colour of a 20mg Cipralex pill – a close cousin of Prozac – taken at the breakfast table. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z Entrepreneurs in the Slovakian city of Košice want to launch a see-through coffee, the main purpose of which is to “not negatively affect the whiteness of your teeth”. Foodfunding: Weird and wonderful culinary projects that need your money 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Robin DiAngelo’s best seller, “White Fragility,” reads like “a pharmaceutical ad for treating whiteness.” Does an Intellectual History of the Trump Era Exist? It Does Now 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z A. Without their layers of dough, they’re just American whiteness with no taste or value. Style Invitational: It’s easy as 1-B-iii 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Even at five, I knew instinctively that whiteness, like all systems of power, preferred not to be interrogated. Akala: ‘As I grew up, I became embarrassed by my mother’s whiteness' 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Du Bois discussed the psychological wages of whiteness and how poor whites may not have much materially but they still have white skin privilege. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z When it is discovered, he flees into the oppressive whiteness of a snowstorm. ‘Native Son’ Review: A Big Story Made Smaller 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Did you want to emphasize the whiteness of this situation? Jordan Peele Narrates a Scene From ‘Get Out’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z But my stereotypical notions of whiteness waned as I began to spend time around all kinds of white people, from public officials and police officers to working-class whites in my community. Wild myths I believed about white people: Notes on race, American ignorance and the Capitol riots 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z While both are often shoved under that umbrella term "people of color," their differing relationships to whiteness mean that there is no automatic solidarity. My fellow Asian Americans, we must address the anti-Blackness rampant in our community 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z The whiteness of the casing meant that it kept your fingerprints and got dirty: a treasured sign of actual use. For Better and Worse, We Live in Jony Ive’s World 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Secondly, for those of us who grew up isolated in our whiteness, the book opens up a world that is known to us but not felt. If you lived through 'The Help,' do you have to read it, too? 2011-02-12T01:07:08Z Mr. Bowie was queering both masculinity and whiteness. How David Bowie Challenged MTV on Race 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Like many businesses, the publishing industry was profoundly impacted by the racial reckoning of 2020, when its overwhelming whiteness was called into question both online and behind closed doors. With 4 Color Books, Bryant Terry Looks to Color Outside the Lines 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Moving outdoors to a field near Storm King’s main building, the whiteness of the final six borrowed pieces is that of a cloud brought down to earth but still straining at its anchor. For David Smith, Sculptor and Painter, a Happy Equilibrium in White 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z What he observed — the predominant whiteness of sitcoms and talk shows, the exoticized depiction of people of color — left a permanent impression, one that still inspires him to imagine his own alternative cultural narratives. Derrick Adams Can Make Art Out of Anything (Even Rubber Gloves) 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z It wasn’t until my late teens that I started to really think about what whiteness means. Akala: ‘As I grew up, I became embarrassed by my mother’s whiteness' 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z The failure to see through a racial lens, to refuse to articulate whiteness as a race, that's permitted the dominance of whiteness. “Put the fangs back in feminism”: Author Rafia Zakaria on how feminism loses relevance to whiteness 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The cell that holds them may represent “the hegemonic system of whiteness” the New York artist confronts, according to the gallery’s notes. In the galleries: Bodies that are more than flesh and bone 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The walls either side of the atrium are entirely glazed, and everything is drenched in a clinical whiteness, giving it more the feeling of a corporate headquarters. Holland Park school opts for corporate vision with £80m building 2012-10-28T17:59:23Z Do the showrunners of “Big Little Lies” know that their soap opera is about whiteness and the toxic effects of keeping up appearances and suffocating the truth? The Disappointing, Emmy-Baiting Finale of “Big Little Lies” Season 2 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The lure of Antarctica, she wrote, was in part the continent’s all-encompassing whiteness, reminiscent of the sterile white walls in the many hospitals of her youth. Jenny Diski, Author Who Wrote of Madness and Isolation, Dies at 68 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z But again, we know from history that whiteness expands to include new groups. Professor targeted by right wing attack speaks out: “It was a blitzkrieg” 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z My response is that whiteness as a category is a set of privileges. Professor targeted by right wing attack speaks out: “It was a blitzkrieg” 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z By associating the term with whiteness and straight relationships, they tacitly but purposefully froze out everyone who doesn't fit that image: If "A Christmas …Present" shows what Candace Cameron Bure means by tradition, she can keep it 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z My ideas about whiteness were shaped by society. Wild myths I believed about white people: Notes on race, American ignorance and the Capitol riots 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z In that moment, I realized that whiteness was something that must be reckoned with. We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z He admonished publishers to resist “white supremacy’s cruelest enchantment: that whiteness is at the heart of absolutely everything.” Perspective | Yes, ‘Little House on the Prairie’ is racially insensitive — but we should still read it 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Just as our skin is the place where our body intersects with the world, our whiteness is where our experience of the world is shaped by power. We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z “I’m not attempting to write whiteness in any real way. I am writing about the pain that has been endured by being on the other side of whiteness.” A Crop of New Novels About Race and Racism Finds Freedom in Satire 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z He is bothered by white friends who “flagellate themselves, sincerely or performatively, apologizing for their ‘whiteness,’ as if they were somehow born into original sin.” How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink Race 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z In a pastoral service of compassion, Dyson argues that white Americans are also among the victims of the invention of whiteness. “You can’t coddle white brothers and sisters”: The fiery racial gospel of Michael Eric Dyson 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z I think a good example is whiteness, white supremacy. A Buddhist teacher’s meditations on confronting white supremacy 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z “It’s a move away from whiteness, but it’s also away from a stereotype of media experience of trauma and pain,” he says of the mid-episode shift. 'How do we celebrate, not satirize?': inside the world of Terence Nance 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z As if it were an occupational duty, Dyson announced, “It is my job to associate Trump with whiteness.” “You can’t coddle white brothers and sisters”: The fiery racial gospel of Michael Eric Dyson 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z His desire to shed his whiteness and be “an ally” sets him apart from the blatant bigotry and hatred of the emboldened white nationalists, yet Harry still makes unwittingly offensive comments about Black people. A Crop of New Novels About Race and Racism Finds Freedom in Satire 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z The casting of a Black actress to play Hermione Granger in the play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” provoked howls from many fans, but the character’s whiteness never had any bearing on her brilliance. ‘Hamilton,’ ‘The Simpsons’ and the Problem With Colorblind Casting 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z When I see a handful of dancers and Beyoncé awash in so much whiteness that all the other color comes from skin and flowers, I just want five minutes of that. Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’: Let’s Discuss 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z The nominee lists for major film awards in 2020 have, once again, dazzled with their gleaming whiteness. Three years after Moonlight, why are awards shows still so white? 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z It’s a play about whiteness cast with all black actors. ‘Fairview’: Watching a Play in Black and White 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Mr de Waal considers the quality of whiteness, its meanings in different cultures and different ages; he weighs the balance between use and art, between commerce and culture. Chasing perfection 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z “I’m looking at this within these spaces. We’re in these white spaces, so how are we involved with this? I am speaking to my own whiteness. “We have to be questioning ourselves. This is what happens when performance artist Karen Finley inhabits Trump and talks Weinstein 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z I should have known then about whiteness as a honeyed protective coating, one that would shield me but that could be lethal for everyone else. What it took to finally confront my family about race and politics 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Yet, historical liberties that uphold whiteness and serve the white gaze don't draw the same backlash about being true to history. Candace Owens: If Black woman can play Anne Boleyn, white man should play Obama 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z A lot of my feeling about growing up white in this country is about not knowing how to talk about whiteness. Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus Wants You to Think About Whiteness (and to Dance) 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z But anyone who believes that people of color are inherently immune to the power of whiteness, or are incapable of being conquered by it or distorted by it — well, nobody believes that. America’s first white president 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z The Irish, Italians, the Polish, Jews, Russians, and other Europeans have, over the centuries and decades, completed this journey from the periphery of whiteness to being fully considered white. What fuels “white anxiety”? The baffling hypocrisies behind white paranoia politics 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Still, what struck me most is that what the film wants to say — about mental illness or class divisions in American society — is not as interesting as what it accidentally says about whiteness. The Real Threat of ‘Joker’ Is Hiding in Plain Sight 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The fact that so many prominent white people are scared of discussions of whiteness shows the value of the conversations. We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z If we want to deal with racism, we need to deal with whiteness. We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z There are pictures that combine both methods and more, the transitional passages between them always involving a pure whiteness that is sometimes solid and sometimes insubstantial as light. Richard Hamilton: The Late Work; Mel Bochner: If the Colour Changes – review 2012-10-13T23:06:10Z In an ironic twist, one of the goals will be to educate people about whiteness and white supremacy, a task that echoes the rhetoric used by white ethno-nationalists like Richard Spencer. Claudia Rankine’s Home for the Racial Imaginary 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z But instead of being yet another chatty, naturalistic couch play, the show throws itself into the grotesque, when the essence of whiteness manifests in a burst of body horror as surreal as it is funny. ‘White on White’ Review: American Grotesque 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z While I’ve tried to wrestle with what it means for her to appear so light in a society that hugely privileges whiteness, I’ve grown more uneasy about her name. Does My Child’s Name Erase My Identity? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z But how did her whiteness and her class work on white people? Rosalind Fox Solomon’s Color Line 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z It would seem in America that melanin is death while whiteness is life. #CrimingWhileWhite does pay: Ammon Bundy and weaponized white privilege prevails again in Oregon 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z “It’s the first painting I ever bought,” said Mr. Baldessari, seated at his desk behind a mess of books and papers, wearing rumpled black clothes that highlight the whiteness of his beard. These Days, John Baldessari Cribs From the Masters 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z People began to call out the media and corporations for pushing these old ideals of whiteness, thinness and unattainable perfection onto us. The final blonde: My ongoing journey to decolonizing Barbie from my dress-up 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z His mission with “White People” is to understand whiteness—and though many of his subjects laugh when he asks them about their white experience, the premise is entirely earnest. “White People” probably won’t change anyone’s mind on race, identity and what it means to be white 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z When the show aired, the fantasies of mainstream culture perhaps defaulted more easily to a kind of moneyed whiteness. “Is There Still Sex in the City?” and the Decline of a Particular Fantasy Life 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z The play, which begins performances in February, tells the story of a dinner party in New York and, according to the theater, poses the question, “Can American society progress if whiteness stays invisible?” Alanis Morissette Has Written a Musical Based on ‘Jagged Little Pill’ 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z In this case, the Oscars’ most noted off-screen controversy — the glaring whiteness and maleness of many of the major categories and movies — didn’t get quite the airing an extended monologue might have delivered. Review: A Driverless Oscars Takes a Winding Road 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Sometimes it is done from a desire to feel closer to African-Americans, he said, or to escape whiteness. Jess Row’s ‘Your Face in Mine’ Explores ‘Racial Reassignment’ 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z His unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor. 'Loving Day's' examination of race is handled with candor, wit 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z But it’s something more: Boston is the leading cinematic signifier of whiteness, of white ethnicity and ethnic solidarity outside the South and without the taint of white Southern revanchism. The Blinding Cinematic Whiteness of “Black Mass” 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z By that point, however, the cries about the unbearable whiteness of the longstanding faux-romance competition had hit a fever pitch. Opiate for the masses: In selecting a black woman to woo, “The Bachelorette” does something it should have done years ago 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z I haven’t grown up proximate to that whiteness and white power and that leveraging of money, so I haven’t experienced the kind of abuse that these brilliant artists have had in white theaters. Four Black Artists on How Racism Corrodes the Theater World 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z I told him that his whiteness would not shield our children from the hatred we see on a daily basis. “Things to do to get pregnant”: I don't know if I should bring a black child into this world 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Nya is one of four new characters devised, it seems, to correct the overwhelming whiteness of “Sex and the City,” the predecessor of “And Just Like That.” Karen Pittman Isn’t the New Samantha 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z That lends an intimacy and trust to the film that glosses over the very narrow scope of its testimonials, making it difficult to ignore the whiteness of its perspective in the film's first half. HBO's "The Janes" spotlights the abortion activists who operated like a spy ring pre-Roe v. Wade 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Here, Getman’s Colonel — a self-deluding plantation owner who wears moral blindness as a medal — picks at a banjo, taunts the wounded Smith and in one amazingly outrageous speech, congratulates himself on his whiteness. Suzan-Lori Parks examines notions of freedom in ‘Father Comes Home’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z To add nuance to the whiteness that has been so carefully constructed to keep others othered? How do you pronounce your name? 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z “I encountered a play that for the first time made me see what whiteness was,” she said. A 1978 Play Plucked From the Slush Pile Gets a Timely New Reading 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Aquaman symbolizes a bridge to a new ecological world order that is delinked from whiteness, from colonialism and from unregulated capitalism. From "Aquaman" to "Avatar," ocean-centric blockbusters are eroding our terrestrial bias 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Martin’s attempt to sound white and the operator’s reaction shrewdly emphasize how the perception of whiteness grants a measure of access often closed to people of color. When Black Performers Use Their ‘White Voice’ 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Jaynes analyzes "America's racial pathology" by examining the literary and intellectual roots of whiteness. Fantasy set in frozen places: Graham Joyce's 'The Silent Land' and Mat Johnson's 'Pym' 2011-04-27T21:55:05Z But these days, there’s a growing demand for painstakingly customized, natural-looking veneers created by professional dental ceramists, offering a balance of lifelike translucency and opaque whiteness. Skin Deep: When That Smile Is Too Perfect 2010-10-19T23:39:00Z The Tea Party demand that “they want their country back” is both a direct claim of white privilege and constitutes a worldview where whiteness is taken to be synonymous with being a “real American.” Donald Trump has dropped the GOP’s mask: Conservatism and racism now officially the same thing 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The fact is that academic environments are often the first place where people who grow up in the privileged bubble of whiteness confront diversity. 'Girls' Recap: Hannah, the White Girl in the Room 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Living in Harlem and now well established in the theater community, Pfeiffer said she has found that “my Blackness and my whiteness don’t have to be separated. I can be deeply who I am.” Meet Four Theater Artists to Watch This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z After being declared “positively demented,” she was sent to Bellevue, which had “that peculiar whiteness seen only in public institutions.” Nellie Bly's Lessons in Writing What You Want To 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z It's time to remember that whiteness doesn't exist at the center of it. "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" is beyond subtitles — and the white gaze 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The Washington Post’s film critic Ann Hornaday addressed the film’s “pervasive whiteness”, asking in her otherwise favorable review: “In Hollywood, must ‘white’ always equal ‘universal?’ Coen brothers: diversity is important, the Oscars are not 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Johann Joachim Winckelmann, arguably the most influential art historian since the Renaissance’s own Giorgio Vasari, popularized the notion of whiteness in ancient marble sculptures in 1764 through two volumes on the topic. That Painted Greek Maiden at the Met: Just Whose Vision Is She? 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z I suggest that this is an unfortunate consequence of the way we talk about whiteness and white privilege, defining these down to narrow boxes that allow too little movement. How whites should talk about white privilege: (Hint, it’s not like Tal Fortgang) 2014-05-07T11:45:00Z Its whiteness meticulously registers its fading and dimming from the window to the back wall. Art Review: Robert Irwin’s Light-and-Space Work Returns to the Whitney 2013-07-25T20:59:01Z Even if one white person reads a book and feels revolutionized, she said, they — and all of us — are still living in a world that " . . . institutionalizes, nurtures, privileges, and rewards whiteness." Allies have had their “great white awakening.” But who will guide them? 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z Simmons said she would decline future donation requests from the institution until she saw it assess its own history of wealth, whiteness and disenfranchisement. Museum’s Role in Police Mural Outside Detroit Draws Criticism 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z She took up the banjo, another symbol of hillbilly whiteness that actually has Black and African roots. With Her First Opera, Rhiannon Giddens Returns to Her Roots 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z The movie feels like it’s on to something about the brain-deadening homogeneity of suburban whiteness, especially with Midler on the prowl. 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z His camera splits its time between the velvety shadows of the Barcelona apartment and the spartan whiteness of Alex’s place in Los Angeles. Review: In ‘10.000 km,’ Lovers an Ocean Apart Struggle to Connect 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z I really wanted to use the whiteness of the landscape and to bring that inside. The Tate Modern at 10 2010-05-04T07:00:00Z And I think that was probably the most conscious approach, that idea of whiteness being a curse, as well as that we're all sort of locked into this thing together, unfortunately. When "Atlanta" Met the Northman: Executive producer Stefani Robinson breaks down the season finale 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z I think that there are numerous examples of white rappers that don’t want to talk about politics, that don’t want to bring up their whiteness in interviews. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Return to the Hip-Hop Fray 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z There’s a myth that we’re now just a multicultural society and that the structures of slavery and genocide no longer affect us — that Indigenous people either died off completely or disappeared into whiteness. The missing women you don’t hear about: How the media fails Indigenous communities 2014-02-14T18:18:00Z But we can only ever think of one item—extreme poverty—and even then it would likely not be their whiteness they’d consider endangered but only the privileges that may have once attended it. Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z It dissects not just their nefarious machinations but their wealth, their whiteness and maleness, the incestuousness of their shared world of power. How “Billions” Became One of TV’s Sharpest Critiques of Power 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z That provides its own subtle commentary on the whiteness of dating and romance reality shows, actually, in presenting an inclusive contestant pool in a dating show where look are removed from the equation. On "Sexy Beasts," love isn't quite blind – but it's an entertainingly shallow heavy petting zoo 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z “For many marginalized young people interested in art, museums still represent authority, whiteness and power — places where we do not belong.” With New Urgency, Museums Cultivate Curators of Color 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Some former LuLaRoe retailers featured even recall how retailers who didn't fit the model of thinness and whiteness embodied by the company were personally encouraged by DeAnne to travel to Mexico for cosmetic surgeries. “Wealth is a higher power”: Amazon's “LuLaRich” & the ultimate suburban white women’s pyramid scheme 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z I was simply mapping out the idea of white supremacy and whiteness and the struggles around and against it historically. Professor targeted by right wing attack speaks out: “It was a blitzkrieg” 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z If whiteness is a type of privilege and power, and by comparison “blackness” has historically been a source of stigma and oppression, Asians and other non-whites have had to situate themselves between those two poles. Who gets to borrow white privilege? This is what happens when an Asian-American cop kills an unarmed African-American 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z I was born in the 1970s and for most of my life, the primary experience of whiteness was not having to think about race at all. We need to talk about whiteness — and then we need to dismantle it 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z |
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