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white America en · PROPN

Meanings

1. White American society and culture.
   • Speaking on Hot 97 – the same station that hosted Azealia Banks’s interview in which she criticised perceived racism in hip-hop – the Thrift Shop rapper discussed white privilege in the industry, why he is accepted by white America and the importance of having a race conversation in the United States. 2014 December 30, Lanre Bakare, “Macklemore: 'White people can just turn TV off when we’re sick of talking about race'”, in The Guardian:
   • In the 1960s, he joined the Nation of Islam, which was led by Elijah Muhammad, who advocated for racial separation, believing White America had stripped African Americans of their family histories. 2018 October 2, Ben Strauss, “DNA evidence links Muhammad Ali to heroic slave, family says”, in The Washington Post:
   • In white America, the printed word — the literary tradition — and its attendant values, are revered. In the Negro community, more power resides in the spoken word and oral tradition — good talkers abound and the best gain power and prestige, but good writers are scarce. 2008, William W. Ellis, White Ethics and Black Power: The Emergence of the West Side Organization, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 79:

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Anglo-Saxon America