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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, point of view, appearance, etc.
- Caucasian Race
The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, Europid, or Europoid) is...
- White Man
White Man may refer to: . White Man, a 1924 film by Louis J....
- Light Skin
A Norwegian woman with light skin. Light skin is a human...
- Brown
Brown pride is a response to the racist or colorist...
- White Americans
White Americans (also referred to as European Americans) are...
- The History
The History of White People is a 2010 book by Nell Irvin...
- Caucasian Race
- Background
- Racial Prerequisite Cases
- Specific Groups
- See Also
- Further Reading
According to Marxist scholar David Roediger, by the 18th century, "white" had become well established as a racial term at a time when the enslavement of African Americans was widespread. Roediger has argued that the construction of the "white race" in the United States was an effort to mentally distance slave owners from slaves. The process of offi...
During the period when only "white" people could become naturalized U.S. citizens, many court decisions were required to define which ethnic groups were included in this term. These are known as the "racial prerequisite cases", and they also informed subsequent legislation.
African Americans
Laws dating from 17th-century colonial America excluded children of at least one black parent from the status of being white.[citation needed] Early legal standards did so by defining the race of a child based on a mother's race[contradictory] while banning interracial marriage, while later laws defined all people of some African ancestry as black, under the principle of hypodescent, later known as the one-drop rule. Some 19th-century categorization schemes defined people with one black paren...
Middle Eastern Americans
The U.S. Census Bureau includes the "original peoples of Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East" among white people. Under pressure from advocacy groups, the Census Bureau announced in 2014 that it would consider establishing a new, MENA ethnic category for populations from the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arab world, separate from the "white" category. If approved by the Census Bureau, the category would also require approval by Congress. The courts ruled Middle Easterners as not whi...
Ignatiev, Noel (1996). How the Irish Became White. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-91825-1Maghbouleh, Neda (2017). The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503603370.Roediger, David (2018). Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs. Basic Books. ISBN 978-1541673472.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...
White people. A white woman. 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]
