whitestream

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noun

Mainstream views or scholarship with a bias toward white people and their history.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

noun
  1. 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
verbwhitestream (third-person singular simple present whitestreams, present participle whitestreaming, simple past and past participle whitestreamed)

present singular third person whitestreams · participle present whitestreaming · participle past whitestreamed · past whitestreamed

  1. transitivehuman sciencesTo bias toward white people and their history.

    In addition to manipulating the curriculum, Native American children were whitestreamed by severely controlling their actions and very closely monitoring their behavior.

    2008, Curry Malott, A Call to Action

Origin

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APA

whitestream. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whitestream

MLA

“whitestream.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whitestream. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “whitestream,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whitestream.

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