whitestream

Blend of white +‎ mainstream

whitestream

1. (often attributive) Mainstream views or scholarship with a bias toward white people and their history.
   • 2018, Amelia M. Kraehe, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, B. Stephen Carpenter II, The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education, page 485:

     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.

whitestream (third-person singular simple present whitestreams, present participle whitestreaming, simple past and past participle whitestreamed)

1. (transitive, social sciences) To bias toward white people and their history.
   • 2008, Curry Malott, A Call to Action:

     In addition to manipulating the curriculum, Native American children were whitestreamed by severely controlling their actions and very closely monitoring their behavior.

• blackstream
• whitewishing