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Whiteness is an exclusionary concept used to create an 'ingroup' and 'outgroup'. Hasan Piker gives a great breakdown of it here.
Historically, it comes from a justification of chattel slavery. Painting 'whiteness' as purity and superior and 'blackness' as inferior and subservient. Leeja Miller gives a great analysis about how this has influenced Eugenics in American history (which inspired the ideology of the Nazis) which is still practiced to this day in certain circumstances.
It's long, but Knowing Better gives an extremely detailed history of neoslavery in American history. To understand why 'whiteness' is still so prevalent in America in modern day, it's important to understand the history of systemic racism and how it persists to this day.
Edit: We can expand on this concept of Identity Politics from just America to the lens of Colonialist Race Relations through the works of Franz Fanon who explored and wrote about this in detail. While Fanon wrote about this in the 1960s, his works are just as if not more relevant today. Adi Callai does a fantastic analysis of Fanon's works about Identity Politics, how to overcome it, and the realities of Race Abolition. If you're interested in how to overcome and move past the identity politics of Whiteness and Blackness, check out Adi Callai's video here.