Whiteness as Wise Provincialism: Royce and the Rehabilitation of a Racial Category.

The article presents an analysis of Josiah Royce's essay titled "Provincialism" which focuses on transforming whiteness into a non-oppressive and anti-racist. According to the author, Royce distinguishes both provincialism and its development as a conscious phenomena which includes consciousness of unity and place identity among provinces. She suggests that for members of a province to develop wise provincialism, they should have relations with other communities and make use of what they acquire for life and community development. She also advocates the determination to give the surroundings of a community with dignity, beauty and nobility. She further stresses that the white people are totally responsible for their whiteness because they do not have the sole control over their whiteness.