whitetopia

English

Etymology

Blend of white +‎ utopia. First use appears c. 1964. See cite below.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /waɪˈtəʊ.pi.ə/, (without the wine–whine merger) /ʍaɪ-/
• (US) IPA^(key): /waɪˈtoʊ.pi.ə/, (without the wine–whine merger) /ʍaɪ-/
• Rhymes: -əʊpiə

Noun

whitetopia (usually uncountable, plural whitetopias)

1. (US, slang, derogatory, urban studies) A white or white-majority suburb or community.
   • 1964, Saturday Review Associates, Saturday Review - Volume 47, Part 2, page 71:

     perhaps the name of their towns should be Whytopia (more of an elegant suburban ring to it than Whitetopia) and Blaquetopia.

   • 2017, Carl Mika, Michael A. Peters (editors), The Dilemma of Western Philosophy:

     Like contemporary Whitetopias, Black philosophers are marked as unwanted and assigned to the back of the proverbial philosophical bus.

   • 2019, Laurie Essig, Love, Inc. - Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter, page 166:

     A whitetopia is whiter than the nation, its respective region, and its state.

   • 2020 January 18, GLOBUS, “Majority of Blacks Believe Fat Tubby Is Racist and Other Wonderful Poll Numbers”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I'll bet this faggot lives in Whitetopia. He doesn't have to live around DIEversity, though he should be required to.

   • 2021, Charles Haddad, Chasing the Albino Pygmy Giraffe, page 20:

     Their flight had ended 60 miles east in a place realtors had promised them would be a tree-lined Whitetopia. And for thirty years it was.