Antiwhiteness

Quick meaning: Antiwhiteness is a noun meaning Hostility towards white people.

Meaning

Hostility towards white people.

Example Sentences

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.

In one exchange, several users challenged this racial ideology that equates pro-blackness with anti-whiteness in their reactions to an excerpt from a Muhammad Ali speech in which he says, “We don't hate you! We don't hate those of you who are white. We just want to stay Black. We love my color. I just love myself.”

[…] 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 militant resistance to white society.

Word Forms

• anti-whiteness

Synonyms for antiwhiteness

Depending on context, synonyms include antiwhiteism.

Antonyms for antiwhiteness

Common opposites include prowhiteness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include antiwhitism, antiwhiteism, antiblackness, anti-blackness, whitephobia, prowhiteness.

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