Dictionary

prowhite en · ADJ

Etymology

From pro- + white.

Meanings

1. Supporting or favouring white people.
   • Nothing is wrong with being prowhite or having white pride. Some people are offended and think it is wrong to claim those terms racist. They are not, but it becomes a problem when white pride becomes white privilege or white supremacy. 2016, Darrell Smith, Black Reality:
2. Supporting or favouring white nationalism, white supremacy, and similar racialist views.
   • There have been loyal prowhite homosexuals who have found ways to contribute, like donating lots of money to prowhite causes. 2009, Jessie Daniels, Cyber Racism: White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights, page 79:
   • A significant feature of racialized society is that individuals get socialized into the dominant ideology of white supremacy, one that creates and maintains a prowhite/anti-Other logic. 2013, R. Scapp, B. Seitz, Living with Class:
   • We move from confronting the offensive maneuvers of prejudice or misogyny to countering the defensive pro-life and pro-white, or white supremacist, stance. 1996, Carol A. Mason, Fundamental Opposition, page 188:
   • In another statement, Faulkner expresses his prowhite zealotry and antiblack hysteria in a racial analogy. 2004, Carlyle Van Thompson, The Tragic Black Buck, page 107:
   • As early as March of '08, for example, some of the earliest parodies of Obama Hope were posted on a prowhite discussion board started in 1995 by a former KKK member and white nationalist activist. 2015, Laurie E. Gries, Still Life with Rhetoric:

Forms

Antonyms

antiwhite

Deriveds

prowhiteness