Definition of Whiteness

Whiteness

The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.

Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc.

Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness.

Nakedness.

A flock of swans.

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Whiteness Quotations

No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness.
Montel Williams

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
Alexander Smith

If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.
Eric Liu

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.
Eric Liu

The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.
Timothy Thomas Fortune

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.
Charles Simeon

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
William R. Alger

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Whiteness Translations

whiteness in French is blancheur
whiteness in Italian is bianca
whiteness in Swedish is vithet

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