Whiteness may refer to: Light skin The racial and cultural identity of white people Whiteness studies, an interdisciplinary academic field, exploring the identity of whiteness Whiteness theory Definitions of whiteness in the United States, the relationship between different U.S. ethnic groups around the concept of whiteness Dental shade scale of teeth Whiteness (colorimetry), the degree to which a surface is white Whiteness, Shetland, a place in Scotland