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anti-brown

anti-brown adjective: opposed to brown-skinned people.

Adjective

anti-brown (comparative more anti-brown, superlative most anti-brown)

  1. Opposed to brown-skinned people.
    • Eliminating or drastically reducing immigration will not just deprive the U.S. of talented people by the millions, and hurt the economy by eliminating the jobs they create. It will also help anti-black, anti-brown, anti-yellow and general anti-foreign nastiness, of which we have good and plenty...1995 June 20, A. M. Rosenthal, “On My Mind; Arianna, Go Home!”, in The New York Times
    • Because blacks were lynched in this case while Latino/as were only driven from town does not mean Latino/as were immune from violence; it calls attention to the fact that anti-black violence was more rampant than anti-brown violence during the late nineteenth century and more foundational to the...2013, John D. Márquez, Black-Brown Solidarity: Racial Politics in the New Gulf South, University of Texas, →ISBN, page 71

Forms of anti-brown

comparativemore anti-brown
superlativemost anti-brown
alternative formantibrown

Origin of anti-brown

From anti- + brown.

Questions about anti-brown

What does anti-brown mean?
Anti-brown means opposed to brown-skinned people.
What part of speech is anti-brown?
Anti-brown is an adjective.

Words near anti-brown in the dictionary

  1. anti-bottom quarks
  2. anti-Boulangist
  3. anti-bribery
  4. anti-bronies
  5. anti-brony
  6. anti-brown
  7. anti-bubble
  8. anti-bubbles
  9. anti-Buddhist
  10. anti-bumping granule
  11. anti-bumping granules

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