lactification
lactification noun: the whitening of a black race.
Noun
lactification (uncountable)
- 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.
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