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anti-blackness

anti-blackness is the alternative form of antiblackness.

Meaning of antiblackness

Noun

antiblackness (uncountable)

  1. Hostility towards black people.
    • Anti-blackness is one way some black scholars have articulated what it means to be marked as black in an anti-black world. It’s more than just “racism against black people.” That oversimplifies and defangs it. It’s a theoretical framework that illuminates society’s inability to recognize our...2020 June 4, Kihana Miraya Ross, “Call It What It Is: Anti-Blackness”, in New York Times
    Antonyms:
    problackness

Questions about anti-blackness

What is anti-blackness the alternative form of?
Anti-blackness is the alternative form of antiblackness.

Words near anti-blackness in the dictionary

  1. anti-beauty quark
  2. anti-beauty quarks
  3. anti-bias
  4. anti-bisexual
  5. anti-black
  6. anti-blackness
  7. anti-blur
  8. anti-bottom quark
  9. anti-bottom quarks
  10. anti-Boulangist
  11. anti-bribery

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