Meanings
- attributiveoftenMainstream views or scholarship with a bias toward white people and their history.
When White people revived the Lindy Hop in the 1990s, it was also processed and commodified. The dance was used to sell whitestream products. […] Black bodies were taken out of the story in order to make the dance profitable to the whitestream.
2018, Amelia M. Kraehe, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, B. Stephen Carpenter II, The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education, page 485
present singular third person whitestreams · participle present whitestreaming · participle past whitestreamed · past whitestreamed
Origin
Blend of white + mainstream.
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