"whitenize" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From whiten + -ize.",
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          "ref": "1982, Best Sellers, volume 42, Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, page 85:",
          "text": "And most of the major characters are made into puppets to prove the thesis that America \"whitenizes\" blacks and converts everyone else into \"freaks.\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2001, Kitty Krupat, Out at Work: Building a Gay-labor Alliance, page 52:",
          "text": "[…] the move to sanitize, whitenize, and normalize the public and visible representations of the LGBTTSQ community, as was evident in the response from national gay organizations to a right-wing ad campaign featuring \"ex-gays.\"",
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        "To adapt to the cultural norms of white people."
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        "(transitive) To adapt to the cultural norms of white people."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "whitenization"
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        {
          "word": "whitify"
        }
      ],
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        "transitive"
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  "word": "whitenize"
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