blacklash
/ˈblækˌlæʃ/
blacklash noun: a backlash by black people against other ethnicities or groups.
Noun
blacklash (plural blacklashes)
- A backlash by black people against other ethnicities or groups.
- This was the blacklash. The whitelash came, too, and blood flowed in the streets.1970 January, John H. Britton, “Into age of sick seventies”, in Jet magazine, page 7
- Nor is this the only case of racial thinking in contemporary thought . A "blacklash" may partly motivate the Afrocentrist movement among African-American scholars.1994, Dean Keith Simonton, Greatness: Who Makes History and Why, page 30
Forms of blacklash
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Origin of blacklash
Blend of black + backlash.
Questions about blacklash
- What does blacklash mean?
- Blacklash means a backlash by black people against other ethnicities or groups.
- What part of speech is blacklash?
- Blacklash is a noun.
- How do you pronounce blacklash?
- Blacklash is pronounced /ˈblækˌlæʃ/.
- What is the plural of blacklash?
- The plural of blacklash is blacklashes.
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