antiwhite

English

Alternative forms

• anti-white, anti-White

Etymology

From anti- +‎ white.

Adjective

antiwhite (comparative more antiwhite, superlative most antiwhite)

1. Hostile to white people or white culture.

   Antonym: prowhite

   Coordinate term: antiblack

   • 1972, Center for Minority Group Mental Health Programs (U.S.), Bibliography on Racism - Volumes 1-2, page 17:

     In particular, the discussion is concerned with beliefs by blacks about whites, antiwhite and anti-Semitic attitudes.

   • 1979, Harold Earl Quinley, Charles Young Glock, Anti-Semitism in America, page 70:

     These and other questions were asked not to examine antiwhite feelings in depth — this would have required another study — but to build a rough index of antiwhite attitudes.

   • 2007, Robert Reid-Pharr, Once You Go Black: Desire, Choice and Black American Intellectual, page 131:

     […] choosing at this juncture to redefine himself in relation to an emerging black culture, a culture that was self-consciously antiwhite and, more significantly still, antinigger.

   • 2008, Franklin Rosemont, Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism, page 296:

     Vaché's rambuncious racelessness, which in practice translated into an antiwhite affirmation of other races, […]

   • 2008, Noel Ignatiev, “One Summer Evening”, in Bernestine Singley, editor, When Race Becomes Real, page 299:

     When I speak publicly, I make a point of distinguishing between being antiwhite, which I am, and being unwhite, which I do not claim to have become.

   • 2012, Ian Reifowitz, Obama's America, page 30:

     West demonstrated that one can vociferously and unrelentingly condemn white supremacy as well as critically examine the harm it continues to inflict on black Americans without being antiwhite.

   • 2014, Sarah E. Turner, Sarah Nilsen, The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America:

     Similarly, according to Blue Eyes, L.A. Law was little more than antiwhite propaganda: It was a real jewfest promoting multiculturalism and race mixing.

   • 2016, Jennifer Schweppe, Mark Austin Walters, The Globalization of Hate: Internationalizing Hate Crime?, page 69:

     For example, as one user noted: I am sick of self hating whites, white guilt, and multiculturalism which is jost a codeword for antiwhite.

   • 2018, Vajra M. Watson, Transformative Schooling: Towards Racial Equity in Education, page xv:

     As Malcolm X so eloquently pronounced: "If the present generation of whites would study their own race in the light of their true history, they would be anti-white themselves."

   • 2022, Shelly Tochluk, Witnessing Whiteness: The Journey Into Racial Awareness and Antiracist Action, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 106:

     White nationalists recognize this as an opening. They hear antiracists' calls to “dismantle whiteness” and suggestions that we should be “less white” and they use our words against us as they claim that “antiracism is antiwhite.”

Derived terms

Related terms

• white, White
• whiteness

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