Dictionary

antiwhite en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + white.

Meanings

1. Hostile to white people or white culture.
   • […] 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:
   • 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:
   • For example, as one user noted: I am sick of self hating whites, white guilt, and multiculturalism which is jost ^([sic]) a codeword for antiwhite. 2016, Jennifer Schweppe, Mark Austin Walters, The Globalization of Hate: Internationalizing Hate Crime?, page 69:
   • 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:
   • 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." 2018, Vajra M. Watson, Transformative Schooling: Towards Racial Equity in Education, page xv:
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • Similarly, according to Blue Eyes, L.A. Law was little more than antiwhite propaganda: It was a real jewfest promoting multiculturalism and race mixing. 2014, Sarah E. Turner, Sarah Nilsen, The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America:
   • 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.” 2022, Shelly Tochluk, Witnessing Whiteness: The Journey Into Racial Awareness and Antiracist Action, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 106:

Forms

Antonyms

prowhite

Coordinates

anti-brown · antiblack

Deriveds

antiwhiteism · antiwhiteness · antiwhitism

Relateds

whiteness · white · White

Translations (4)

de weißenfeindlich (opposed to white people) · pt antibranco (opposed to white people) · fr antiblanc (opposed to white people) · pt antibrancos (opposed to white people)