Western race scholarship long ignored whiteness as a category of analysis

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Whiteness studies is a recent corrective to minority-centered race analysis — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 643; Feminist scholarship on race often fails to interrogate the writer’s own location — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 161; Academic study of race long ignored whiteness as an unexamined norm. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 643

Broader Connections

• Academic study of race long ignored whiteness as an unexamined norm. #expands (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 643