Academic study of race long ignored whiteness as an unexamined norm.

Evidence

An important feature of much of the historical and contemporary discussions of race and ethnicity has been that its field of vision has been limited by and large to racial and ethnic minorities. In the Western context, this has meant that much of the literature on race and ethnicity remains silent on issues of whiteness. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 643

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Whiteness being the unspoken norm makes naming it feel racist even to racialised minorities. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 60; The most race-saturated society hosted an academy that neglected studying race itself. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 547; Whiteness studies is a recent corrective to minority-centered race analysis — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 643 (+1 more)