...like Dora to stretch the concept of "local" to encompass him. Ruth Frankenberg (1993, p. 6) writes: "(n)aming 'whiteness' displaces it from the unmarked,...effects on white people both of race privilege and of dominance of whiteness are their seeming normativity, their structured invisibility." In the context...

...color face and have to struggle with, but not as an issue that generally involves or implicates us. ... Naming Whiteness displaces it from the unmarked, unnamed...status that is itself an effect of its dominance. (p. 6) Whiteness is primarily understood, by persons of color, as a functional political entity that...