prowhite

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From pro- +‎ white.

Adjective

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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.

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