Jan 14, 2023
(THE POST MILLENNIAL) - The Research Council of Norway is spending over $1.2 million USD on a project that is dedicated to discovering how the country has contributed to the spread of "whiteness" globally, through colonialism and through paint. The research project, "How Norway Made the World Whiter (NorWhite)," hosted by the University of Bergen, describes "whiteness" as " one of today's key societal and political concerns." Advertisement - story continues below "Within and beyond academia worldwide, actions of revolt and regret seek to cope with our racial past. In the pivotal works in whiteness studies within art and architecture history, whiteness is understood as cultural and visual structures of privilege," the project, principally led by Associate Professor Ingrid Halland, opens. Her website boasts of a 12 million kroner funding grant from the government. TRENDING:
