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antiblackness

antiblackness noun: hostility towards black people.

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

Antonyms of antiblackness

Forms of antiblackness

alternative formanti-blackness

Origin of antiblackness

From antiblack + -ness.

Questions about antiblackness

What does antiblackness mean?
Antiblackness means hostility towards black people.
What part of speech is antiblackness?
Antiblackness is a noun.

Words near antiblackness in the dictionary

  1. antibisexual
  2. antibishop
  3. antibishops
  4. antiblack
  5. antiblackism
  6. antiblackness
  7. antiblasphemy
  8. antiblast
  9. antiblastic
  10. antibleeding
  11. antiblennorrhagic

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