antiwhite

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adjective

Hostile to white people or white culture.

Opposite
Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectiveantiwhite (comparative more antiwhite, superlative most antiwhite)

comparative more antiwhite · superlative most antiwhite · alternative anti-white · alternative anti-White

  1. Hostile to white people or white culture.

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

    2008, Franklin Rosemont, Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism, page 296
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    In particular, the discussion is concerned with beliefs by blacks about whites, antiwhite and anti-Semitic attitudes.

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

    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.

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

    […] 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.

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

    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.

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

    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.

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

    Antonyms: prowhite

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveHostile to white people or white culture.

Opposite

Origin

Translations

French antiblanc
  • antiblancopposed to white people
German weißenfeindlich
  • weißenfeindlichopposed to white people
Portuguese antibranco, antibrancos
  • antibrancoopposed to white people
  • antibrancosopposed to white people
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