hyperwhite
Very much white or Caucasian; following the stereotypes of the white race to the exclusion of others.
Adjective
- Very much white or Caucasian; following the stereotypes of the white race to the exclusion of others.
- To compensate for being so hyperwhite and boring, Petula is sexually active. - 2008, Ozmioz Mak, Victory Sex, page 14:
- This [a depiction of people with brown skin] is the one such representation in Parker and Sendak's illustrated (and critically abridged) edition, which otherwise presents the characters as almost surreally hyperwhite. -...
- But as one recent cultural critic points out, in creating a hyperwhite “safe” space, “nerds” rejected black hip-hop music and dress. - 2010, Daniel J. Walkowitz, City Folk, page 258:
Origin
From hyper- + white.