white nationalist

noun

plural white nationalists

: one of a group of militant white people who espouse white supremacy (see white supremacy sense 1) and advocate enforced racial segregation

… his vision for the community—an enclave where residents fly "racialist" banners, where they are able to import enough … white nationalists to take control of the town government …

—John Eligon

white nationalism noun

or less commonly White Nationalism

… a far right platform that includes white nationalism and opposition to Israel.

—Mike Sunnucks

Examples of white nationalist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The manager allegedly replaced two Hispanic managers with her white friends, including one who is associated with a white nationalist gang, according to the release. —Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024

Skrewdriver was first active as a skinhead/Oi! band in the Seventies and became an explicitly white nationalist, neo-Nazi group after frontman Ian Stuart Donaldson resurrected the group in the Eighties (Donaldson died in 1993). —Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2024

Others, like Vincent, go undercover in the real world, posing as white nationalists to attend meetings and demonstrations. —David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024

Masters has leaned heavily on attacks on Hamadeh's religious and cultural identity to discredit his campaign rival and has taken an aggressive tack on matters of race and immigration, including flirting with an immigration conspiracy theory first popular among white nationalists. —Laura Gersony, USA TODAY, 28 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1951, in the meaning defined above