Whitestream
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Whitestream is a noun meaning (often attributive) Mainstream views or scholarship with a bias toward white people and their history.
Meaning
(often attributive) Mainstream views or scholarship with a bias toward white people and their history.
More Meanings
- (transitive, social sciences) To bias toward white people and their history.
Example Sentences
In addition to manipulating the curriculum, Native American children were whitestreamed by severely controlling their actions and very closely monitoring their behavior.
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.
Word Forms
- whitestreams
- whitestreaming
- whitestreamed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include whitism, mainstreamist, whitewishing, mainstreamism, system, whitemanity.
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