Definitions for white person
white per·son

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. White, White person, Caucasiannoun

   a member of the Caucasoid race

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1. White person

   A person of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256). In the time of slavery in the United States white person was generally construed as a person without admixture of colored blood. In various statutes and decisions in different States since 1865 white person is construed as in effect (as of 1913): one not having any negro blood (Ark., Okla.); one having less than one eighth of negro blood (Ala., Fla., Ga., Ind., Ky., Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex.); one having less than one fourth (Mich., Neb., Ore., Va.); one having less than one half (Ohio). Since the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960's and 1970's, the term has little legal significance -- for some purposes, as in filling out questionnaires, a person's race is whatever the person claims it to be.

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1. white person

   White is a racialized classification of people and a skin color specifier, generally used for people of European origin, although the definition can vary depending on context, nationality, and point of view. Description of populations as "White" in reference to their skin color predates this notion and is occasionally found in Greco-Roman ethnography and other ancient or medieval sources, but these societies did not have any notion of a White or pan-European race. The term "White race" or "White people", defined by their light skin among other physical characteristics, entered the major European languages in the later seventeenth century, when the concept of a "unified White" achieve universal acceptance in Europe, in the context of racialized slavery and unequal social status in the European colonies. Scholarship on race distinguishes the modern concept from pre-modern descriptions, which focused on physical complexion rather than race. Prior to the modern era, no European peoples regarded themselves as "White", but rather defined their race, ancestry, or ethnicity in terms of their nationality.Contemporary anthropologists and other scientists, while recognizing the reality of biological variation between different human populations, regard the concept of a unified, distinguishable "White race" as socially constructed, rather than scientific.

How to pronounce white person?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say white person in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of white person in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of white person in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of white person in a Sentence

1. Michael Drummond:

   Especially as a white person, I benefit from the status quo, and so not showing up and actively working to deconstruct institutional racism makes me complicit.

2. Christine Pride:

   Black people, in general, are very wary of having this conversation because we talk about race amongst each other a lot because it's a central component of life, but when you meet a new White person, as I met Jo as a new friend, there is, I think, a built-in level of apprehension there about what is this person's background ? What is their family like ? You know, what, what are they hearing at the dinner table ? What did they hear about Black people growing up ? Who are their other friends ? What is their social circle ?

3. Emmanuel Acho:

   I fervently believe that if the White person is your problem, only the White person can be your solution.

4. Ulish Carter:

   Black people will get extremely fired up and fight for a Trayvon Martin (the black teen fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida) or any time a white person kills a black person, or police kill a black person. You got rallies and marches and protests, you get your national leaders involved, but all these situations with blacks killing blacks, you're just as dead.

5. Jackman Town Manager Tom Kawczynski:

   I am not a white supremacist. I am not a racist, what gets me in trouble sometimes is I am a white person who is not ashamed to be white.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=white person
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=white person
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Person