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blackenization

blackenization noun: the process of making or becoming more black (i.e. of African descent) or more characteristic of black culture.

Noun

blackenization (uncountable)

  1. The process of making or becoming more black (i.e. of African descent) or more characteristic of black culture.
    • White entertainers like Eddie Cantor (left) cashed in on the blackenization of White America by imitating Black minstrels in blackface.1980, Louie Robinson, "The Blackening of White America", Ebony, May 1980, page 162 (image caption)
    • Today's blackenization, if you will, of the prisons only exacerbates racist proclivities in nonblack Americans to associate black people with wrong.2001, Mark Lewis Taylor, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 28

Origin of blackenization

From blacken + -ization.

Questions about blackenization

What does blackenization mean?
Blackenization means the process of making or becoming more black (i.e. of African descent) or more characteristic of black culture.
What part of speech is blackenization?
Blackenization is a noun.

Words near blackenization in the dictionary

  1. blackenest
  2. blackeneth
  3. blackening
  4. blackenings
  5. blackenised
  6. blackenization
  7. blackenize
  8. blackenized
  9. blackenizes
  10. blackenizing
  11. blackens

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