Whites, also called Caucasians Caucasian or European Americans, are a category of people who share similar physical characteristics, such as relatively white skin. Like the designation “black,” however, “white”designates a broad and various (not monolithic) group of people. They are members of a “race” only to the extent that they share a few superficial physical traits and a few European cultural traits—race being more of a sociopolitical-cultural-religious category than a... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 2p.