Yoshie Furuhashi wrote that "whiteness" "helps others to understand which white folks of America -- those who strongly identify with white American identity and those who don't and would rather identity with others in America and the rest of the world -- are more politically promising and the balance of forces between two kinds of white folks."
I've never seen this distinction made when it's been applied to historical questions. In this model, there is only one type...characterized by "whiteness." In theory, a Caucasian who rejects and sheds "whiteness" is no longer "white." But I have no idea what they mean by this. Neither do they. ML
