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White people


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    • Caucasians (White people)
    • White persons
    • Whites
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    • found: Work cat.: Gordimer, N. Burger’s Daughter, 1979t.p. (Nadine Gordimer)
    • found: Washington Post obituary for Nadine Gordimer, 2014(Ms. Gordimer, who was white, was an early and active member of the African National Congress, but she did not craft political manifestos. Her role as an author, she said, was simply to "write in my own way as honestly as I can and go as deeply as I can into the life around me.")
    • found: LCSH, Sept. 6, 2016(Whites. UF White people; White persons. BT Ethnology. RT Caucasian race)
    • found: ERIC thesaurus, via WWW, Sept. 6, 2016(Whites. Category: Peoples and Cultures. BT Population Groups. NT White Students. RT Anglo Americans; Race; Racial Relations. UF Caucasian Race; Caucasians; White Ethnics; White Flight)
    • found: MeSH browser, Sept. 6, 2016(European Continental Ancestry Group. Scope note: Individuals whose ancestral origins are in the continent of Europe. UF Caucasian Race; Caucasoid Race; Whites)
    • found: Cambridge dictionary website, Sept. 6, 2016(Caucasian: (American English) noun, a white person)
    • found: Macmillan dictionary online, Sept. 6, 2016(Caucasian, adjective: used for describing a white person, for example from Europe, North America, or Australia; derived word: Caucasian, noun)
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    • 2016-09-06: new
    • 2022-06-21: revised
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