whitetopia

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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.