whitestream

noun, verb — 2 senses

whitestream

noun

Etymology Blend of white + mainstream.

1

Often Mainstream views or scholarship with a bias toward white people and their history.

  • 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.2018, Amelia M. Kraehe, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, B. Stephen Carpenter II, The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education, page 485:

whitestream

verb

Etymology Blend of white + mainstream.

1

Human sciences, Sciences, Social science, Social sciences To bias toward white people and their history.

  • In addition to manipulating the curriculum, Native American children were whitestreamed by severely controlling their actions and very closely monitoring their behavior.2008, Curry Malott, A Call to Action:
Related terms
blackstream, whitewishing

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