antiblack

English

Alternative forms

  • anti-black, anti-Black

Etymology

From anti- + black.

Adjective

antiblack (comparative more antiblack, superlative most antiblack)

  1. Hostile to black people, often specifically African Americans.
    Antonym: pro-black
    Coordinate term: antiwhite
    • 2006, Michael Hanchard, Party/Politics: Horizons in Black Political Thought, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 203:
      [It] overlapped significantly with some aspects of antiblack ideologies in the United States, through forms of antiblack racism in Cuba that preceded the U.S. occupation. As de la Fuente notes, calls for de-Africanization []
    • 2009, January 15, “Sarah Kershaw”, in Talk About Race? Relax, Its O.K.:
      The unpublished study found that the answers revealed little evidence of antiblack bias []

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