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What is "non-white"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
non-white
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Among the highest in the city: the William Lloyd Garrison School, with 96. 8 per cent non-white.
▪ By and large these youngsters had few social contacts with non-whites.
▪ It was argued that the rule of having only Yorkshire-born players was the perfect way of keeping out the non-whites.
▪ The Lord Chancellor's Department has introduced open competition, and encouraged more women and non-whites to apply.
▪ The majority of the downtrodden are non-white.
▪ The white one would come up to him, smile and introduce the non-white one.
▪ There were no non-whites in either branch studied.
▪ Women and non-whites are likely to experience particular difficulty.

Usage examples of "non-white".

As the nation became more mobile after the war, some of these loyal customers moved to non-White Castle areas, could no longer get their burgers, and yearned for them.

And some companies, like the Alvin Ailey dancers, are mostly non-white.

At night, when the commuters had all fled their offices for the suburbs, the island had been forty-five percent black, with another twenty-odd percent composed of Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Chinese and other non-whites, leaving Caucasians a minority group.

People used to be (and sometimes still are) afraid to pair a non-white guy with a white ballerina (or vice versa) in a pas de deux.

Soon the two were enthusiastically discussing the merits of racially segregated education, the unacceptability of mixed marriages and the impossibility of allowing non-whites to vote.