antiwhite
antiwhite adjective: hostile to white people or white culture.
Adjective
antiwhite (comparative more antiwhite, superlative most antiwhite)
- Hostile to white people or white culture.
- In particular, the discussion is concerned with beliefs by blacks about whites, antiwhite and anti-Semitic attitudes.1972, Center for Minority Group Mental Health Programs (U.S.), Bibliography on Racism - Volumes 1-2, page 17
- These and other questions were asked not to examine antiwhite feelings in depth — this would have required another study — but to build a rough index of antiwhite attitudes.1979, Harold Earl Quinley, Charles Young Glock, Anti-Semitism in America, page 70
- Antonyms:
- prowhite
Examples of antiwhite in a sentence
- […] choosing at this juncture to redefine himself in relation to an emerging black culture, a culture that was self-consciously antiwhite and, more significantly still, antinigger.2007, Robert Reid-Pharr, Once You Go Black: Desire, Choice and Black American Intellectual, page 131:
- Vaché's rambuncious racelessness, which in practice translated into an antiwhite affirmation of other races, […]2008, Franklin Rosemont, Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism, page 296:
- When I speak publicly, I make a point of distinguishing between being antiwhite, which I am, and being unwhite, which I do not claim to have become.2008, Noel Ignatiev, “One Summer Evening”, in Bernestine Singley, editor, When Race Becomes Real, page 299:
- West demonstrated that one can vociferously and unrelentingly condemn white supremacy as well as critically examine the harm it continues to inflict on black Americans without being antiwhite.2012, Ian Reifowitz, Obama's America, page 30:
Antonyms of antiwhite
Forms of antiwhite
| comparative | more antiwhite |
|---|---|
| superlative | most antiwhite |
| alternative form | anti-white |
| alternative form | anti-White |
Origin of antiwhite
From anti- + white.
Words formed from antiwhite
Questions about antiwhite
- What does antiwhite mean?
- Antiwhite means hostile to white people or white culture.
- How do you use antiwhite in a sentence?
- […] choosing at this juncture to redefine himself in relation to an emerging black culture, a culture that was self-consciously antiwhite and, more significantly still, antinigger.
- What part of speech is antiwhite?
- Antiwhite is an adjective.
Words near antiwhite in the dictionary
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