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whitestream en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of white + mainstream.

Meanings

1. (attributive, often) Mainstream 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:

whitestream en · VERB

Etymology

Blend of white + mainstream.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To 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:

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Relateds

blackstream · whitewishing