Meaning of blacklash | Babel Free

Definitions

A backlash by black people against other ethnicities or groups.

Examples

“This was the blacklash. The whitelash came, too, and blood flowed in the streets.”

“Nor is this the only case of racial thinking in contemporary thought . A "blacklash" may partly motivate the Afrocentrist movement among African-American scholars.”

“Such thinking contributes to preexisting resentful attitudes towards lesbians and gay men and prompts what Gates calls a "blacklash" or a view that being lesbian or gay is a chosen identity and a mere inconvenience, whereas being black is to "inherit a legacy of hardship and inequity" (p. 42).”

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