Dictionary

whitetopia en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /waɪˈtəʊ.pi.ə/ (UK)
• /waɪˈtoʊ.pi.ə/ (US)
• /ʍaɪ-/ (US) without the wine–whine merger
• /ʍaɪ-/ (UK) without the wine–whine merger

Etymology

Blend of white + utopia. First use appears c. 1964. See cite below.

Meanings

1. (US, derogatory, qualifier:urban studies, slang, uncountable, usually) A white or white-majority suburb or community.
   • perhaps the name of their towns should be Whytopia (more of an elegant suburban ring to it than Whitetopia) and Blaquetopia. 1964, Saturday Review Associates, Saturday Review - Volume 47, Part 2, page 71:
   • A whitetopia is whiter than the nation, its respective region, and its state. 2019, Laurie Essig, Love, Inc. - Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter, page 166:
   • Like contemporary Whitetopias, Black philosophers are marked as unwanted and assigned to the back of the proverbial philosophical bus. 2017, Carl Mika, Michael A. Peters (editors), The Dilemma of Western Philosophy:
   • I'll bet this faggot lives in Whitetopia. He doesn't have to live around DIEversity, though he should be required to. 2020 January 18, GLOBUS, “Majority of Blacks Believe Fat Tubby Is Racist and Other Wonderful Poll Numbers”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):
   • Their flight had ended 60 miles east in a place realtors had promised them would be a tree-lined Whitetopia. And for thirty years it was. 2021, Charles Haddad, Chasing the Albino Pygmy Giraffe, page 20:

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Coordinates

blacktopia