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transblack

transblack adjective: identifying as black despite having been born as a member of a different race (typically white).

Adjective

transblack (not comparable)

  1. (neologism, rare) Identifying as black despite having been born as a member of a different race (typically white).
    • “I do think a more complex label would be helpful, but we don’t really have that vocabulary. I feel like the idea of being trans-black would be much more accurate than ‘I’m white’. Because you know, I’m not white. […]”2017 February 25, Decca Aitkenhead, “Rachel Dolezal: ‘I’m not going to stoop and apologise and grovel’”, in The Guardian
    • […] “It will happen someday just because people will declare themselves to be transblack.”2018, Don W. Hill M.D., The Dnr Trilogy: Volume 3: Clinical Justice, Archway Publishing, →ISBN

Origin of transblack

From trans- + black.

Questions about transblack

What does transblack mean?
Transblack means identifying as black despite having been born as a member of a different race (typically white).
What part of speech is transblack?
Transblack is an adjective.

Words near transblack in the dictionary

  1. transbian
  2. transbians
  3. transbilayer
  4. transbiliary
  5. transbixin
  6. transblack
  7. transblot
  8. transblotted
  9. transblotter
  10. transblotters
  11. transblotting

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