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One Civil War-era photographer Charles Eisenmann took pictures of performers known as Circassian Beauties, women supposedly from the Caucasus, displaying them as exemplars of pure whiteness.
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Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2024
September 9, 2024 4 min read Defending the U.S. is much more complicated in an era of climate change
By Sherri Goodman
Flying by helicopter over the Greenland ice sheet, I am struck by its vast expanse of whiteness.
—Sherri Goodman, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2024
The real problem is worryingly narrow ideals of whiteness, thinness, and androgyny.
—Quispe López, Them, 1 Aug. 2024
But those privileges depended on distortions of Western democratic values that produced a kind of hereditary aristocracy of whiteness.
—Nell Irvin Painter, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019
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Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2024
September 9, 2024 4 min read Defending the U.S. is much more complicated in an era of climate change
By Sherri Goodman
Flying by helicopter over the Greenland ice sheet, I am struck by its vast expanse of whiteness.
—Sherri Goodman, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2024
The real problem is worryingly narrow ideals of whiteness, thinness, and androgyny.
—Quispe López, Them, 1 Aug. 2024
But those privileges depended on distortions of Western democratic values that produced a kind of hereditary aristocracy of whiteness.
—Nell Irvin Painter, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019
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“Whiteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whiteness. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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