prowhite

English

Alternative forms

• pro-white, pro-White

Etymology

From pro- +‎ white.

Adjective

prowhite (comparative more prowhite, superlative most prowhite)

1. Supporting or favouring white people.
   • 2016, Darrell Smith, Black Reality:

     Nothing is wrong with being prowhite or having white pride. Some people are offended and think it is wrong to claim those terms racist. They are not, but it becomes a problem when white pride becomes white privilege or white supremacy.

2. Supporting or favouring white nationalism, white supremacy, and similar racialist views.
   • 1996, Carol A. Mason, Fundamental Opposition, page 188:

     We move from confronting the offensive maneuvers of prejudice or misogyny to countering the defensive pro-life and pro-white, or white supremacist, stance.

   • 2004, Carlyle Van Thompson, The Tragic Black Buck, page 107:

     In another statement, Faulkner expresses his prowhite zealotry and antiblack hysteria in a racial analogy.

   • 2009, Jessie Daniels, Cyber Racism: White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights, page 79:

     There have been loyal prowhite homosexuals who have found ways to contribute, like donating lots of money to prowhite causes.

   • 2013, R. Scapp, B. Seitz, Living with Class:

     A significant feature of racialized society is that individuals get socialized into the dominant ideology of white supremacy, one that creates and maintains a prowhite/anti-Other logic.

   • 2015, Laurie E. Gries, Still Life with Rhetoric:

     As early as March of '08, for example, some of the earliest parodies of Obama Hope were posted on a prowhite discussion board started in 1995 by a former KKK member and white nationalist activist.

Antonyms

• antiwhite

Derived terms

• prowhiteness