38. "At the same time, the author DOES conflate in one sense here." In response to In response to 36
The words "White" and "Whiteness" should not be capitalized in the first two paragraphs, which are explicitly talking about phenotypical whiteness. In the third paragraph, he shifts to talking about her "capital letter Whiteness" - i.e. the constructed/performed element - but if he's properly aware of the distinction between the two, why did he repeatedly use a capital W in the words "White" and "Whiteness"??
Note that I'm not agreeing with Stringer Bell, who seems to take issue with the third paragraph itself.