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Critical Whiteness Studies

open access: yes, 2018
Critical whiteness studies can be understood in terms of three overlapping waves ranging from the national to the international and from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Beginning in the Reconstruction era in the United States, the first wave criticized whiteness in the form of protection of white femininity, possessive ownership, and the public and ...
Shannon Sullivan
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The Uses of Whiteness: What Sociologists Working on Europe Can Draw from US Research on Whiteness [PDF]

open access: yesSociology, 2006
Whiteness studies are trans-disciplinary, but here the focus is principally on sociology and social history. Firstly, I identify, elucidate and synthesize the major ways in which whiteness in this literature has hitherto been problematized, to provide a ...
Steve Garner
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The heart of whiteness: On the study of whiteness and White Americans

Sociology Compass, 2021
Abstract From the nation's first non‐white President, to prevalent narratives of demographic change, a surging reactionary Right and emerging social awareness of white identity, the social context in which white Americans relate to whiteness and white privilege has changed since the early 1990s foundations of whiteness studies.
Jason Torkelson, Douglas Hartmann
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Symposium: Whiteness Studies

open access: yesRhetoric Review, 2005
This essay discusses the emergence of whiteness studies in the study of English rhetoric and composition in the U.S. History of whiteness studies; Function and definition of whiteness in the U.S.; Role of race in different U.S.
Tammie M. Kennedy   +9 more
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Introduction to White Republic? Studying Whites and Whiteness in France

2021
France is an overwhelmingly majority-White nation. Yet the French majority is reluctant to identify as White, and French social science has tended to eschew Whiteness as an object of inquiry. Inspired by critical race theory and critical Whiteness studies, this interdisciplinary special issue offers a new look at White identities in France.
Cohen, Mathilde, Mazouz, Sarah
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White-to-White Corneal Diameter in the Tehran Eye Study

Cornea, 2010
To determine the mean corneal diameter and its determinants in the population of Tehran.From the Tehran Eye Study participants who were sampled through a stratified cluster approach, those in the first 4 municipality districts of Tehran were selected, and after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 399 right eyes and 401 left eyes of 410 ...
Hassan, Hashemi   +5 more
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The White Possessive and Whiteness Studies

Kalfou, 2019
Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s The White Possessive performs its own important truths through evidence, ideas, and arguments about property, power, and Indigenous sovereignty. Its arguments about the links between Indigenous dispossession and whiteness are compelling in themselves, but they also serve as provocations to think more generally about how ...
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Studying Whiteness

Queensland Review, 1999
If, as a famous dead white European man once suggested, the point of studying racism is to change it, what can we learn about ending racism by studying it as whiteness? The first part of the paper summarizes some of the major issues and findings of recent studies of whiteness in the United States. It suggests that there is a hidden life at the heart of
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Spectroscopic Studies on the Darkening of Lead White

Applied Spectroscopy, 2003
Lead white is an historically important paint used by artists since antiquity. The darkening of lead white has been well documented in works of art such as paintings. In this paper, mid-infrared (MIR) and visible spectroscopy were used to examine spectral changes accompanying the darkening of lead white paint as a result of ...
Goltz, Douglas   +5 more
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A study of “white spotted kidneys” in cattle

Veterinary Microbiology, 2002
A study was performed at an abattoir in Australia, in an attempt to correlate focal chronic interstitial nephritis (FCIN) producing the so-called "white spotted kidney", with Leptospira spp. and other pathogens in cattle. Samples of kidneys, urine and blood were collected immediately after slaughter from 46 two-year-old heifers, and 72 cows and bulls ...
Uzal, FA   +8 more
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