negrophilia
negrophilia noun: an affection for, or interest in things related to, the black race.
Noun (1)
negrophilia (uncountable)
- An affection for, or interest in things related to, the black race.
- The above recollections were published in 1935, when his views about Afro-America had already hardened into dogma, and his negrophilia had long been left behind.1990, Bernard Gendron, “Fetishes and motorcars: Negrophilia in French modernism”, in Cultural Studies, volume 4, number 2, Taylor & Francis, →ISSN, pages 141–155
- If, as one historian has argued, "Minstrelsy is negrophobia staged as negrophilia, or vice versa, depending on the respective weight of the fear or attraction" (Ostendorf, 81), the hypermasculinized buck of Birth of a Nation and the undermasculinized boy of The Jazz Singer sustain minstrel...2000 April 20, Susan Gubar, Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture (Race and American Culture), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 77
- Antonyms:
- Negrophobia
Noun (2) capitalized: Negrophilia
Negrophilia (uncountable)
- Alternative letter-case form of negrophilia.
Antonyms of negrophilia
Forms of negrophilia
| alternative form | Negrophilia |
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Origin of negrophilia
From negro + -philia.
Questions about negrophilia
- What does negrophilia mean?
- Negrophilia means an affection for, or interest in things related to, the black race.
- What part of speech is negrophilia?
- Negrophilia is a noun.
Words near negrophilia in the dictionary
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