Antiblack

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Hostile to black people, often specifically African Americans.

    "[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 […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion wordnet

Synonyms

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anti semiteanti-semitebiasedchauvinisticcoloreddoctrinaire

Example

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"[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 […]"

Etymology

From anti- + black.

Related phrases

african american

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