Example sentences for: whiteness

How can you use “whiteness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When California Caucasians are practicing Feng Shui and Zen meditation, when suburban Asian teens are reciting gangsta rap lyrics, when salsa sales are surging past ketchup sales, how can we speak with a straight face about the ineffaceable whiteness of American life?

  • As I skim Flowers in the Dustbin for fresh anecdotes (which we agree may be the book's real pleasure), I realize how many of Miller's vignettes seem chosen with an eye to '90s academic interests--gender, thanatos, whiteness studies.

  • Ah, I see: Some are born white, others achieve whiteness, still others have whiteness thrust upon them.

  • The spectacle of the Left-Behind White tells us again that many whites who complain about black obsessions with blackness are themselves obsessed with whiteness.

  • The resulting swaths of color, like beach towels rippling on a laundry line, create a planar kind of abstraction, with large areas of smooth, erased whiteness.


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