antiwhiteness en · NOUN
Etymology
From antiwhite + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Hostility towards white people.
Thus, the figure of oxymoron offers whiteness studies a generative interpretive approach that promotes antiracism and antiwhiteness by making visible the hauntings of whiteness. This visibility may, in turn, facilitate productive debates and antiracist/antiwhiteness actions.
2017, Tammie M. Kennedy, Joyce Irene Middleton, Krista Ratcliffe, editors, Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 10:In one exchange, several users challenged this racial ideology that equates pro-blackness with anti-whiteness in their reactions to an excerpt from a Muhammad Ali speech in which he says, “We don't hate you! We don't hate those of you who are white. We just want to stay Black. We love my color. I just love myself.”
2020, Allison McCracken et al., editors, a tumblr book: platform and cultures, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 53:[…] psychiatrists Walter Bromberg and Frank Simon described schizophrenia as a Protest Psychosis, whereby black men developed “hostile and aggressive feelings” and “delusional antiwhiteness” after listening to the words of Malcolm X, joining the Black Muslims, or aligning with groups that preached militant resistance to white society.
2014, Therese Jones, Delese Wear, Lester D. Friedman, editors, Health Humanities Reader, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| anti-whiteness | alternative | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Relateds
whiteness · white · White · antiwhite · prowhite · antiblackness
Synonyms
Translations (1)
de Weißenfeindlichkeit (hostility towards white people)