whitetopia
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of white + utopia. First use appears c. 1964. See cite below.
Noun
[edit]whitetopia (usually uncountable, plural whitetopias)
- (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.
- 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.