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lactification

lactification noun: the whitening of a black race.

Noun

lactification (uncountable)

  1. The whitening of a black race.
    • However, in stark contrast with the lactification principle so denigrated by Fanon, she decides to abort and come home. She will eventually become involved with a local Black trade unionist.1995, Lillian S. Robinson, Modern women writers, volume 3, page 66
    • He condemns the latter for advocating in her novels what he terms as the lactification principle: the coloured woman's rejection of her self and her assumption of the white man's identity through a relationship, generally sexual[…]2003, Wendy Goolcharan-Kumeta, My mother, my country, page 111

Origin of lactification

See lactify (“to make or become milky”). Coined in sociological sense by Frantz Fanon.

Questions about lactification

What does lactification mean?
Lactification means the whitening of a black race.
What part of speech is lactification?
Lactification is a noun.

Words near lactification in the dictionary

  1. lactides
  2. lactidomycin
  3. lactiferous
  4. lactiferousness
  5. lactific
  6. lactification
  7. lactified
  8. lactifies
  9. lactifluous
  10. lactiform
  11. lactifugal

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