blackify

Verb

blackify (third-person singular simple present blackifies, present participle blackifying, simple past and past participle blackified)

1. (transitive) To convert (e.g. a country, a group, etc) to the black race or culture.
   • Her France seems to her undoubtedly blackified [translating negrificada] and Jewish.1995, Lisa Block de Behar, A Rhetoric of Silence and Other Selected Writings →ISBN, translating a word by Manuel Puig, page 269
   • There is another theme to some studies of whiteness by white feminists, and it borders on an assertion that We Are Other, Too. It is the implication that femaleness blackifies, that because a white person or group is female that person or group does not partake of white privilege to the same degree...2005, Paul Spickard, “What's Critical about White Studies”, in Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion, →ISBN, page 123