blackophilia
blackophilia noun: negrophilia.
Noun
blackophilia (uncountable)
- Negrophilia.
- The media's perception of "white needs" with regard to the consumption of images of black bodies plays on - in a manner that effortlessly conflates - both the blackophilia (a seductive fascination with racial otherness) and blackophobia (fear and dread of racial otherness) that has always framed...2010 December 28, David J. Leonard, C. Richard King, Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports (Perspectives on a Multiracial America), Rowman &...
- This group includes whites who do not support the white pride movement and who may identify with popular black culture (a phenomenon that Yousman, 2003, has termed blackophilia).2011 July 4, Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and Intergroup Relations: A Festschrift in Honor of Marilynn B. Brewer (Psychology...
Origin of blackophilia
From black + -o- + -philia.
Questions about blackophilia
- What does blackophilia mean?
- Blackophilia means negrophilia.
- What part of speech is blackophilia?
- Blackophilia is a noun.
Words near blackophilia in the dictionary
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