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is a form of property which confers privileges on its holders and pays dividends not in the form of actual economic gains, but in the shape of relative political advantages to whites regardless of class position.

Cheryl Harris describes whiteness as a form of property, which confers privileges on its holders. In 'Whiteness as Property,' Harris writes, 'The wages of whiteness are available to all whites, regardless of class position even to those whites who are without power, money, or influence. Whiteness, the characteristic that distinguishes them from blacks, serves as compensation even to those who lack material wealth. It is the relative political advantages extended to whites, rather than actual economic gains, that are crucial to white workers.'

is, for the Trobriand Islanders, felt as ugly owing to the stringy hair, axe-blade-like nose, spots on the white skin, and big eyes like water puddles.

Europeans, the natives frankly say, are not good-looking. The straight hair 'coming round the heads of women like threads of im' (course pandanus fibre used for making strings)... the nose, 'sharp as an axe blad'... the thin lips... the big eyes, 'like water puddles'... the white skin with spots on it like those of an albino all these the natives say (and no doubt feel) are ugly.' (malinowski)

Whiteness is ownership of the earth. W. E. B. Du Bois

is such that those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white. They had to learn they were white. An irish peasant coming from british imperial abuse in ireland during the potato famine in the 1840s, arrives in the United States. You ask him or her what they are. They say, 'I am irish.' No, you're white. 'What do you mean, I am white'' And they point out to a black man. 'Oh, I see what you mean.

Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white. They had to learn they were white. An Irish peasant coming from British imperial abuse in Ireland during the potato famine in the 1840s, arrives in the United States. You ask him or her what they are. They say, 'I am Irish.' No, you're white. 'What do you mean, I am white'' And they point me out. 'Oh, I see what you mean. This is a strange land.' Cornel West

is such that without the presence of black people in America, european-Americans would not be 'white'-they would be irish, Italians, poles, welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity.

Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be 'white'-they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108) Cornel West

is such that, in American, American means white and everybody else has to hyphenate.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

is that primary, obsessional, silent quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized.

White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness that primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic. Adrienne Rich

is grounded in the truth that white bodies are more at home in a world orientated around whiteness.

whiteness becomes a social and bodily orientation given that some bodies will be more at home in a world that is orientated around whiteness.

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