white America

See also: White America

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white America

  1. White American society and culture.
    Synonym: Anglo-Saxon America
    • 2008, William W. Ellis, White Ethics and Black Power: The Emergence of the West Side Organization, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 79:
      In white America, the printed word — the literary tradition — and its attendant values, are revered. In the Negro community, more power resides in the spoken word and oral tradition — good talkers abound and the best gain power and prestige, but good writers are scarce.
    • 2014 December 30, Lanre Bakare, “Macklemore: 'White people can just turn TV off when we’re sick of talking about race'”, in The Guardian:
      Speaking on Hot 97 – the same station that hosted Azealia Banks’s interview in which she criticised perceived racism in hip-hop – the Thrift Shop rapper discussed white privilege in the industry, why he is accepted by white America and the importance of having a race conversation in the United States.
    • 2018 October 2, Ben Strauss, “DNA evidence links Muhammad Ali to heroic slave, family says”, in The Washington Post:
      In the 1960s, he joined the Nation of Islam, which was led by Elijah Muhammad, who advocated for racial separation, believing White America had stripped African Americans of their family histories.
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