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Pre-modern conceptions of whiteness - Wikipedia

Pre-modern conceptions of whiteness ... The description of populations as white in reference to their skin colour predates and is distinct from the race ...

The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea

The long read: Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race.

Whiteness is an invented concept that has been used as a tool of ...

Whiteness is a modern, colonial invention. It was devised in the 17th century and used to provide the logic for genocide and slavery.

Architecture and Whiteness in the Early Modern World

And how did whiteness intersect with categories such as class, nation, gender, beauty, hygiene, and health? In sixteenth-century Italy, for ...

Whiteness | National Museum of African American History and Culture

Whiteness and white racialized identity refer to the way that white people, their customs, culture, and beliefs operate as the standard by which all other ...

The Social Construction of Whiteness - Central Washington University

Such a focus reveals that the idea and conception of whiteness derives from the dynamics of racism ... concept, “race,” as having a modern history. According to ...

“Whiteness”: The origins and evolution of “whiteness” in the West

“Whiteness” was originally a socially constructed reality invented by the white-skinned rich/European elite. It was a social status with ...

1. Constructing Caucasians: A Brief History of Whiteness

2 Even today, the concept and boundaries of race remain vital to understanding our society. To almost all Americans, the word white has transcended its ...

Mackenzie Art Gallery: Conceptions of White - Ken Gonzales-Day

Conceptions of White is an exhibition offering context and a nuanced perspectives that help viewers grapple with contemporary configurations of ...

Race and history in the early modern period | Cairn.info

... whiteness,” and “white privilege”) can be mobilized to describe these ... modern concepts of blood, race, and heredity into biological concepts. 28 ...

Fact-check: the idea of 'race' is not modern but late-medieval - Aeon

There was a modern scientific race concept invented by white male scientists, but it was an extension of an earlier medieval race concept ...

“Conceptions of White” – Border Crossings Magazine

In addition to both documenting and activating the peculiar force of the White gaze throughout history, “Conceptions of White” strives to shine a light on ...

Historical Foundations of Race

Initially, the racial identity of “white” referred only to Anglo-Saxon people and has changed due to time and geography. As the concept of being white evolved, ...

What was 'race' in ancient Rome? | Center for the Humanities

In truth, it is anachronistic to think of the ancient Greeks and Romans as White; after all, contemporary racial categorizations, especially the ...

Introduction in: White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages

The introduction argues that contemporary critical whiteness studies does not afford premodern whiteness a conceptual space to exist.

“Conceptions of White” - Artforum

Tightly organized yet covering a broad swath of time, “Conceptions of White” began fittingly with Robert Morris's white-latex-on-aluminum Portal, 1964, which ...

Where Do the “White Middle Ages” Come From?

The idea of a “white” race emerged during the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century. Carl Linnaeus first categorised humans into races in 1738.

Debunking the Myth of Whiteness - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

... misconceptions about race, color, and ... modern and contemporary conventional characterizations of whiteness, brownness and so on.

Mapping Race in Early Modern Europe

The division between black and white that originated in religious texts would eventually find grounding in the physical body and manifest as skin color as a ...

Defining Whiteness: Perspectives on Privilege

4 How, then, did the concept of whiteness develop? In Te. History of White ... In modern society, the binary is “white” and “non-white.” Because using ...