Holocaust and Hell are capitalised simply because they are names (proper nouns), not because of…

… respect, pride, and celebration, and they don’t want to afford the same courtesy to Whiteness. But we frequently capitalize words for reasons other than respect — words like Holocaust, or Hell, which can be capitalized to indicate specificity or significance. When we ignore the specificity and significance of Whiteness — the things that it is, the things t…

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Paul Bradshaw

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Holocaust and Hell are capitalised simply because they are names (proper nouns), not because of significance or specificity?

Written by Paul Bradshaw

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Data journalist and course leader of the MA in Data Journalism at Birmingham City University. Author of the Online Journalism Handbook.

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