whiteness

Citi Bike Karen and the Danger of White Women’s Tears
A stone statue of a person with a tear running down their cheek.

Citi Bike Karen and the Danger of White Women’s Tears
Team ARD
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The recent “Citi Bike Karen” incident has reignited conversations on how white women have weaponized their emotions and status against communities of color.

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Media & Culture
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What the Myth of Enslaved Irish People Tells Us About Whiteness and Resistance
A small hand-size version of the Irish flag hangs on a kiosk outside.

What the Myth of Enslaved Irish People Tells Us About Whiteness and Resistance
Andrew Lee
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Though Irish people suffered from colonization, the “Irish were slaves first” story is used to attack the struggle for racial justice.

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History Media & Culture
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How White Women Can Decenter Their Whiteness
Two people sitting on picnic table talking.

How White Women Can Decenter Their Whiteness
Regina Jackson and Saira Rao
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White women’s inaction throughout history has brought us to this point, one where we are standing on the precipice of full-blown fascism.

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Media & Culture
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The Meaning Behind the Phrase “It’s Okay to Be White”
People working in small cubicles in a call center.

The Meaning Behind the Phrase “It’s Okay to Be White”
Andrew Lee
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The “Dilbert” comic has been removed from newspapers after its creator advised white people to stay away from Black people, whom he characterized as a “hate group.”

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Identity Media & Culture
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Who is “White”? How the Supreme Court Helped Constructed Our Definition of Race
Two sepia-tone photographs of Bhagat Singh Thind. One the left, a battalion of soldiers stand together. On the right, Thind poses with a rifle in hand.

Who is “White”? How the Supreme Court Helped Constructed Our Definition of Race
Dominique Stewart
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The U.S. legal system played a vital role in constructing the country’s understanding of race and whiteness, as was the case of Bhagat Singh Thind.

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Immigration Politics
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The Problem with Erasing Race from the Holocaust
A pathway fenced in by barbed wire at an Auschwitz concentration camp.

The Problem with Erasing Race from the Holocaust
Nicole Cardoza
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Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust comments on The View inaccurately claimed that the genocide of millions of Jews was not about race. During the Holocaust, Jewish people were labeled as an “inferior race” by the Nazis, echoing similar eugenicist beliefs held in the U.S. during that time.

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History
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Confront the Weaponization of White Women’s Tears

Confront the Weaponization of White Women’s Tears
Nicole Cardoza
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Two trending videos on TikTok reignite conversations about the horrors inflicted due to white women’s tears.

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Media & Culture
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Understand whiteness.
Andrew Lee
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But race is a social construct, and social constructs have social histories. Our modern understanding of race was created at a specific historical juncture in colonial Virginia. Prior to that, it did not exist.

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History
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Acknowledging the Anti-Blackness in Classical Art
A historical bust from the Roman period sits on a pedestal next to six other statues.

Acknowledging the Anti-Blackness in Classical Art
Mary-Hannah Oteju
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Historically, interpretations of classical art are based on preconceived notions of anti-blackness when whiteness is seen as the standard.

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History Media & Culture
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