Whiteness studies is a recent corrective to minority-centered race 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. It is only in recent years that a substantial body of work has begun to emerge on the social inventions, meanings, and implications of whiteness. Vron Ware’s paper traces the emergence of studies of whiteness, and the impact of this body of work on the analysis of race and ethnicity. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 643

Categorization

• XREF: The observation that race literature centered minorities at the expense of whiteness connects to whiteness-as-racial-formation critiques in the vault (e.g., Roediger-derived material on white wage workers). — connects to: Critical Whiteness studies emerged from critical race theory — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1108; Academic study of race long ignored whiteness as an unexamined norm. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 643; Western race scholarship long ignored whiteness as a category of analysis

Broader Connections

• Academic study of race long ignored whiteness as an unexamined norm. #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 643
• Critical Whiteness studies emerged from critical race theory #expands (0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1108
• Western race scholarship long ignored whiteness as a category of analysis #corroborates (0.80)