Example sentences for: whiteness

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

  • In the cosmology of race, whiteness is something like a black hole--a crushingly dense complex of myth and rumor that pulls us, invisibly and irresistibly, into its hold.

  • Being Afro-American and reading Eric Liu's "The Unbearable Being of Whiteness" was like finding a kindred soul.

  • The only time the authors attack passionately and in detail the privileging of whiteness is when such practices are located safely in the past.

  • 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.

  • And on our campuses, kente cloths, ancient tea ceremonies, and native dance performances signify not only a resistance to whiteness but also a yearning, among even the most assimilated, to be abroad at home.


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