Whiteness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7077975 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Howard Winant (University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosw012.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4252467275 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Like water to the proverbial fish, whiteness has been largely invisible in the modern world‐system of European creation, especially in the nations of the Global North and Global West. This invisibility is somewhat unique among the racial categories. The uniqueness does not consist of the “normalization” of whiteness: the idea that whiteness is the “default” racial status, that whites are “just people” who “don't have a race.” Nor does this uniqueness consist in the “transparency” of whiteness: the way in which whiteness is taken for granted in the world's powerful countries and thus not seen, again like water to the fish. In many places, especially where one racially defined group predominates, that group's raciality is also relatively invisible. Think of much of Africa, the Koreas, Han China, or Yamato Japan
China · Geography · Invisibility · Normalization (sociology · Political science · Race (biology · Sociology · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |