misogynoir
Syllables: mis·o·gy·noir/mɪˌsɒd͡ʒəˈnwɑː/US/məˌsɑd͡ʒəˈnwɑɹ/
misogynoir noun: contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against black women.
Noun
misogynoir (uncountable)
- Contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against black women.
- My reorientation to the misogynoir ruling the radio took place when I tried to make the argument that “All the Way Turnt Up” was a great song because it didn’t objectify women. This was something I could get behind; a song simply extolling the youthful value of keeping the bass bumping in your...2010 March 14, Moya Bailey, “They Aren’t Talking about Me …”, in Crunk Feminist Collective, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2022
- Hip-hop feminist studies continues to tackle black sexual politics by discussing and challenging the persistence and prevalence of hip-hop "misogynoir" (the hatred of black women and girls), respectability politics, and compulsory heterosexuality within the music and the culture at large.2013 spring, Aisha Durham, Brittany C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, “The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built: A New Directions Essay”, in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, volume 38, number 3...
Examples of misogynoir in a sentence
- My reorientation to the misogynoir ruling the radio took place when I tried to make the argument that “All the Way Turnt Up” was a great song because it didn’t objectify women.2010 March 14, Moya Bailey, “They Aren’t Talking about Me …”, in Crunk Feminist Collective, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2022:
- [A] Black woman as the arbiter of racialized sexism against a young Black girl is an example of misogynoir.2016, Sonita R. Moss, “Beyoncé and Blue: Black Motherhood and the Binds of Racialized Sexism”, in Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, editor, The...
- To me, his words seemed a form of “misogynoir” – discrimination prejudice, and violence aimed specifically at women of colour.2022 December 21, VV Brown, “The Sun will protect Jeremy Clarkson. Who will protect women who suffer violence every day?”, in The Guardian:
Origin of misogynoir
Blend of misogyny (“contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against women”) + French noir (“black”), coined by the African-American feminist activist and scholar Moya Bailey and first published in a 2010 online essay: see the quotation below.
Words formed from misogynoir
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Questions about misogynoir
- What does misogynoir mean?
- Misogynoir means contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against black women.
- How do you use misogynoir in a sentence?
- My reorientation to the misogynoir ruling the radio took place when I tried to make the argument that “All the Way Turnt Up” was a great song because it didn’t objectify women.
- What part of speech is misogynoir?
- Misogynoir is a noun.
- How do you pronounce misogynoir?
- Misogynoir is pronounced /mɪˌsɒd͡ʒəˈnwɑː/ (UK).
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: misogynoir (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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