TOWARD A CLEANER WHITE(NESS): NEW RACIAL IDENTITIES1

Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Racial Oppression

1. Initiation of Oppression: At an early point in time, the European colonialists established hierarchical group relations with the peoples they oppressed and exploited for their land and labor. Soon this hierarchy of oppression was explained in racial terms. The subordinated groups were viewed as biologically and culturally inferior races. This racialized oppression has never been eradicated a...

Orthographic Errors in Web Pages: Toward Cleaner Web Corpora

Since the Web by far represents the largest public repository of natural language texts, recent experiments, methods, and tools in the area of corpus linguistics often use the Web as a corpus. For applications where high accuracy is crucial, the problem has to be faced that a non-negligible number of orthographic and grammatical errors occur in Web documents. In this article we investigate the ...

The racial geography of child welfare: toward a new research paradigm.

This article examines the community-level impact of concentrated child welfare agency involvement in African American neighborhoods. Based on interviews of 25 African American women in a Chicago neighborhood, the study found that residents were aware of intense agency involvement in their neighborhood and identified profound effects on social relationships including interference with parental a...

Creating White Australia: new perspectives on race, whiteness and history

New Measures of Whiteness That Correlate with Perceived Color Appearance

Most whiteness formulas currently in use satisfactorily characterize the appearance of commercial whiteness. However, when these formulas are applied to colored samples they are generally unsuccessful in assessing tinted samples with chromaticities placed on the borders of white colors. In this study, new formulas expressing whiteness are proposed. These are compared with CIE, Hunter and Ganz w...