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Meanings of ethnic whiteness in English

Portuguese
branquicidade

Socially constructed identity and ethnoracial category of white people.

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        1
        Under this system, proximity to whiteness could increase your chances for freedom.
        The Guardian
        2
        The whiteness of marble creates an ethereal, cloud-like quality: hence the title.
        The Guardian
        3
        Their shapes, small in the distance, showed black against the universal whiteness.
        The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
        4
        She looked up in his face in fear at its ghastly whiteness.
        Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story
        5
        The distant flat shrank in uniform whiteness and low-hanging uniformity of cloud.
        Middlemarch
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