| LC control no. | sh 85146547 |
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| Topical heading | White people |
| Variant(s) | White persons Whites |
| See also | Ethnology Caucasian race |
| Scope note | Here are entered works of a sociological nature that discuss white people as an element in the population, especially in countries where they are a minority. Works of an anthropological nature focusing on the physical features that characterize Caucasians and distinguish them from other races of mankind are entered under Caucasian race. |
| Subject example tracing | Note under Caucasian race |
| Found in | DiAngelo, R. White fragility: why it's so hard for White people to talk about racism, 2018 Lipsitz, G. The possessive investment in whiteness: how white people profit from identity politics, 2018 Merriam-Webster WWW, viewed on May 20, 2021: (white or less commonly White: of or relating to any of various population groups considered as having light pigmentation of the skin; of or relating to white people or their culture) Oxford English Dictionary WWW, viewed on June 28, 2021: white ("Belonging to or denoting a light-skinned group of people, esp. one of European origin or descent"; "The term has often been used in the context of more or less formal attempted systems of racial classification ... but is also often closely tied to perceptions of ethnicity and of social and cultural identity. Sometimes used with implicit or explicit exclusion of certain groups wholly or partly of European descent"; "Of or relating to white people.") |
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