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Whiteness of A Name: Is “White” the Baseline? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine the hypothesis that Whiteness is used as a normative standard when comparing a variety of first names. Design/methodology/approach– Respondents (full- and part-time business students) evaluated names that ...
Cotton, John L.   +2 more
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Whiteness Studies II

open access: yesJournal de la Société des Américanistes, 2009
Whiteness Studies. Over the past two decades, scholars in the social sciences and humanities have increasingly focused on « whiteness » as a new way of exploring race and racism in America.
Peter Kolchin
doaj   +1 more source

Identity, Affect, Alliance: Thinking Whiteness Transnationally

open access: yesCurrent Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2020
I interrogate affective investments in whiteness, both in antiracist movements and in their white-supremacist counterparts. Questioning the definition of whiteness as either race or ethnicity, I point out the affective aspects of both whiteness and ...
Cord-Heinrich Plinke
doaj   +1 more source

Laccases to improve the whiteness in a conventional bleaching of cotton [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This study reports for the first time on the enhancement of the bleaching effect achieved on cotton using laccase enzyme. Laccases applied in short-time batchwise or pad-dry processes prior to conventional peroxide bleaching, improved the end fabric ...
Basto, Carlos   +3 more
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Performing and Deconstructing Whiteness in Student Affairs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The student affairs profession upholds whiteness through its practices, policies, and structures. The dynamics of whiteness have a particularly harmful impact on student affairs professionals of color.
Duran, Lynda, Nguyen, Christine
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Hierarchies, scale and privilege in the reproduction of national belonging [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
It is increasingly recognised both that belonging divides hierarchically and that people have different capacities to be seen as belonging. However, while the existence of hierarchies of belonging is well‐documented from the perspective of ethnically ...
Clarke, Amy
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Seeing and unseeing Prevent’s racialized borders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This article provides a re-theorization of the Prevent strategy as racialized bordering. It explores how knowledge regarding the racist logics of British counter-terrorism are supressed through structures of white ignorance and how International ...
Ali, Nadya
core   +1 more source

Stressful Events Reported by Childhood Cancer Survivors and Community Controls From the St. Jude Lifetime (SJLIFE) Cohort: A Mixed Method Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Characterizing stressful events reported by childhood cancer survivors experienced throughout the lifespan may help improve trauma‐informed care relevant to the survivor experience. Methods Participants included 2552 survivors (54% female; 34 years of age) and 469 community controls (62% female; 33 years of age) from the St.
Megan E. Ware   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards an Equitable Future? Whiteness as Futurity in University Responses to Anti-Asian Violence

open access: yesJournal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity
In this study, I investigate how the rhetoric used in university responses to anti-Asian violence maintained institutional status quos to protect whiteness in higher education.
Brendon M. Soltis
doaj   +1 more source

'Does he look like a Paki?' an exploration of 'whiteness', positionality and reflexivity in inter-racial sports research1851) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article reflects on fieldwork with white and British Asian cricketers which explored the construction, maintenance and contestation of racialised identities in the sport of cricket.
Fletcher, T
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