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Blackwashing

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people. derogatory, uncountable

    "If Pindell opposes the 'whitewashing' of history, then Walker's is a revisionist blackwashing."

  2. 2
    The application of a coating of blackwash. uncountable

    "The blackwashing is here to be the very last operation, and to be well performed, and when dry must be polished by a large sleeker fitting the circle of the cylinder."

  3. 3
    The revisionist portrayal of something as evil. derogatory, uncountable

    "Historical writing proliferates in examples of tendentious accounts of national history, where the “whitewashing” of one history goes hand in hand with the “blackwashing” of another."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of blackwash form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From blackwash + -ing.

Etymology 2

From blackwash + -ing.

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