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blackstream

blackstream adjective: conforming to the mainstream, with the exception of depicting people with black skin; not being a distinctively black style of art.

Adjective

blackstream (not comparable)

  1. Conforming to the mainstream, with the exception of depicting people with black skin; not being a distinctively black style of art.

Origin of blackstream

Blend of black + mainstream, coined by Elsa Honig Fine in her paper Mainstream, Blackstream and the Black Art Movement (1971).

Questions about blackstream

What does blackstream mean?
Blackstream means conforming to the mainstream, with the exception of depicting people with black skin; not being a distinctively black style of art.
What part of speech is blackstream?
Blackstream is an adjective.

Words near blackstream in the dictionary

  1. Blackstone's ratio
  2. Blackstonian
  3. Blackstons
  4. blackstrap
  5. blackstraps
  6. blackstream
  7. blackstuff
  8. blacktag
  9. blacktags
  10. blacktail
  11. blacktails

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