Increasingly, anthropologists and activists are drawing attention to whiteness in examining race and racism. By referring to whiteness as an unmarked category they most likely mean that it has been.

Initially, northerners did not want missouri to be included in the union because 1.) maine would not be allowed to enter the union as a free state 2.) missouri wanted to enter the union as a free state 3.) missouri wanted to enter the union as a slave state 4.) maine would not be allowed to enter the union as a slave state