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postblack

postblack adjective: of or relating to a paradoxical form of black racial identity that rejects the notion that race matters.

Adjective

postblack (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a paradoxical form of black racial identity that rejects the notion that race matters.
    • It is impossible to understand the role of race in Barack Obama's candidacy without examining the idea of “postblack” or “postracial” politics and the evolution of African American politics.2009, M. Marable, Kristen Clarke, Barack Obama and African American Empowerment: The Rise of Black America's New Leadership, Springer, →ISBN, page 165

Origin of postblack

From post- + black; coined in the late 1990s.

Words formed from postblack

Questions about postblack

What does postblack mean?
Postblack means of or relating to a paradoxical form of black racial identity that rejects the notion that race matters.
What part of speech is postblack?
Postblack is an adjective.

Words near postblack in the dictionary

  1. postbiosynthetic
  2. postbiosynthetically
  3. postbiotic
  4. postbiotics
  5. postbirth
  6. postblack
  7. postblackness
  8. postblastodermal
  9. postbleach
  10. postbleaching
  11. postblock

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