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Recent Examples of whiteness
At the same time, most of the general public accepts country music’s whiteness as fact, instead of artificial manufacture.
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Andrea Williams, The Tennessean, 22 Nov. 2024
Making the predator more visible to the rodent prey, which freeze in fear, the owls’ whiteness made voles easier to kill, the prior study found.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
Below, Locke discusses his restless and searching approach to portraiture, portraying whiteness and violence without resorting to spectacle, and wanting people to pay attention to crises happening all around them.
—Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024
That also allows for some telling ambiguities: In a town that is fairly uniform in its comfortable whiteness, there’s little way to guess upfront where individuals may land on certain polarizing political issues.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
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Andrea Williams, The Tennessean, 22 Nov. 2024
Making the predator more visible to the rodent prey, which freeze in fear, the owls’ whiteness made voles easier to kill, the prior study found.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
Below, Locke discusses his restless and searching approach to portraiture, portraying whiteness and violence without resorting to spectacle, and wanting people to pay attention to crises happening all around them.
—Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024
That also allows for some telling ambiguities: In a town that is fairly uniform in its comfortable whiteness, there’s little way to guess upfront where individuals may land on certain polarizing political issues.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
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“Whiteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whiteness. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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