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Oslo: The Norwegian authorities has funded researchers to explore whether or not white ache is racist or not.

The rundown of the examine, carried out by Norway’s University of Bergen, says, “Whiteness is not only a cultural and societal condition tied to skin colour, privileges, and systematic exclusion, but materialize everywhere around us.”

Claiming that Norway is “not a conventional colonial power”, the authorities needs to discover out whether or not or not utilizing titanium white colour “in all places has played a role in establishing it as the superior colour.

“Until now, however, this story has been lesser known to scholars and the public,” it added.

About the examine

The examine, which has been termed as ‘NorWhite’, strives to observe the Norwegian-developed paint pigment titanium white by means of “historical, aesthetic and critical lenses”.

Through the examine, researchers hope to decide how the growth of the white colour played a role in “social transformation”.

The description of the examine requested, “Currently the Norwegian innovation TiO2 [titanium dioxide] is present in literally every part of modern life…The primary research question is: What are the cultural and aesthetic changes instigated by titanium white and TiO2 surfaces – and how can both the material in itself and these changes be conceptualized and made visible?”

A whopping 12 million NOK (Norwegian Krone) has been allotted by the Research Council of Norway, a authorities company whereas the affiliate professor and historian Ingrid Halland is at the forefront of the examine.

“The overall objective of NorWhite is to critically and visually investigate the cultural and aesthetic preconditions of a complex and unexplored part of Norwegian technology and innovation history that has—as this project claims—made the world whiter,” the examine description concluded.

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