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Aug 22, 2021 · August 22, 20215:00 AM ET. By. Hansi Lo Wang. , Ruth Talbot. Some news coverage of the latest 2020 census results may have led you to think the white population in the U.S. is shrinking or in...
The History of White People is a 2010 book by Nell Irvin Painter, in which the author explores the idea of whiteness throughout history, beginning with ancient Greece and continuing through the beginning of scientific racism in early modern Europe to 19th- through 21st-century America.
White people are people with light skin. Most white people are of European origin. In American English, the term "Caucasian" is used to mean "white people. [1] ". Outside of North American, it refers to people or things from the Caucasus Mountains. [1]
White ethnic is a term used to refer to white Americans who are not Old Stock or White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. They consist of a number of distinct groups and make up approximately 69.4% of the white population in the United States. [2]
White (often still referred to as Caucasian) is a racialized classification of people generally used for those of mostly European ancestry. It is also a skin color specifier, although the definition can vary depending on context, nationality, ethnicity and point of view.
Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise of “whiteness” for economic, scientific, and political ends.
White supremacy has roots in the now-discredited doctrine of scientific racism and was a key justification for European colonialism. [2] [3] As a political ideology, it imposes and maintains cultural, social, political, historical or institutional domination by white people and non-white supporters.
