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By choosing whiteness, Genevieve set a damaging example for her offspring.
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Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Instead, viewers are immersed in Millie’s Kingston, with dialogue spoken almost entirely in Jamaican patois, where opportunities are limited, gang violence persists and whiteness is still put on a pedestal.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
At the same time, most of the general public accepts country music’s whiteness as fact, instead of artificial manufacture.
—Andrea Williams, The Tennessean, 22 Nov. 2024
Making the predator more visible to the rodent prey, which freeze in fear, the owls’ whiteness made voles easier to kill, the prior study found.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
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Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Instead, viewers are immersed in Millie’s Kingston, with dialogue spoken almost entirely in Jamaican patois, where opportunities are limited, gang violence persists and whiteness is still put on a pedestal.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
At the same time, most of the general public accepts country music’s whiteness as fact, instead of artificial manufacture.
—Andrea Williams, The Tennessean, 22 Nov. 2024
Making the predator more visible to the rodent prey, which freeze in fear, the owls’ whiteness made voles easier to kill, the prior study found.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Whiteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whiteness. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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