Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Fear of or contempt for black people and their culture.
- noun Behavior based on such an attitude or feeling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fear of the negro; strong antipathy to the negro.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Fear ,hate , ordislike ofBlack people of any descent, usuallyAfricans .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Bauerlein, a professor of English at Emory University, is the author of "Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906" (Encounter).
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English doesn't have a word for hatred of blacks except for the obscure and problematic Negrophobia.
Archive 2007-12-01 Kylopod 2007
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English doesn't have a word for hatred of blacks except for the obscure and problematic Negrophobia.
Funny, you don't look Semitic Kylopod 2007
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The theory advanced by those who claim themselves to be immunes from that dreaded disease of Negrophobia is, that the industrial education of the Negro will inevitably inspire a similar movement for the industrial training of the poor whites, and the resultant competition means a further complication of the race problem, which will only be solved by the ultimate separation of the races.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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English in the West Indies; or, the/[Page xi]/Bow of Ulysses '(the long bow of Ulysses it should have been), provoked numerous damaging replies, the most effective of which was' Mr. Froude's Negrophobia; or,
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But I had returned to the country for the express purpose of joining in the glorious battle against slavery, of which this Negrophobia is a legitimate offspring.
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Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906. online edition
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Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906. online edition
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His books include Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (1997) and Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 (2001).
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Negrophobia as well as Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America.
Ethical Democracy As Lived Practice: The Murder of Marcelo Lucero ... admin 2009
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