Racialization and Whiteness

blackness: We did not ask these questions from a place of querying whiteness, according to Rabble. Yet how do we understand whiteness, and how our conceptualizations of whiteness manifest in relation to blackness, race and racialization, are also worthy of discussion. Interrogations seemed solely contrasted and compared with "blackness" as a concept and with our socially constructed understandings of blackness. If we talk about race as a social construction -- and this has been the academic jargon for the last many years as we moved from the lexicon of "visible minority" status to racialization, to particularly capture the processes that make race to be objectively marked as "race" -- why does it make sense to juxtapose racialization to an essentialized notion of whiteness Not only we are holding the notion of whiteness as the universal benchmark of comparison -- and we are, as long as the move between races is ought to only go unidirectional, from white to black, and not the other way around -- but we also assume that whiteness exclusively conflates with privilege and that subalterness cannot exist within whiteness. Let me further explain. I am not talking about the washed-up argument of "degrees of whiteness" nor about the racialization of whiteness rhetoric, but rather about the otherness inherent to certain forms of whiteness. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.