antiwhiteness
antiwhiteness noun: hostility towards white people.
Noun
antiwhiteness (uncountable)
- Hostility towards white people.
- […] psychiatrists Walter Bromberg and Frank Simon described schizophrenia as a Protest Psychosis, whereby black men developed “hostile and aggressive feelings” and “delusional antiwhiteness” after listening to the words of Malcolm X, joining the Black Muslims, or aligning with groups that preached...2014, Therese Jones, Delese Wear, Lester D. Friedman, editors, Health Humanities Reader, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN
- Thus, the figure of oxymoron offers whiteness studies a generative interpretive approach that promotes antiracism and antiwhiteness by making visible the hauntings of whiteness. This visibility may, in turn, facilitate productive debates and antiracist/antiwhiteness actions.2017, Tammie M. Kennedy, Joyce Irene Middleton, Krista Ratcliffe, editors, Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 10
- Synonyms:
- antiwhiteism
- Antonyms:
- prowhiteness
Synonyms of antiwhiteness
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Forms of antiwhiteness
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Origin of antiwhiteness
From antiwhite + -ness.
Questions about antiwhiteness
- What does antiwhiteness mean?
- Antiwhiteness means hostility towards white people.
- What part of speech is antiwhiteness?
- Antiwhiteness is a noun.
Words near antiwhiteness in the dictionary
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