Meaning of negrobilia | Babel Free

Definitions

Collectibles that portray stereotypes of black people.

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Examples

“Birdie's negrobilia provides both identity and security, reminders of a time when she was black and had a sister.”

“Then the third thought, and the tears would have⟳ begun to fall⟳ now as she saw⟳ that the box of negrobilia was missing. That the Golliwog was missing.”

“... along the way stopped for pounds of coffee, items of negrobilia, chunks of pralines, a glance⟳ at a drugstore window that featured both vintage advertising and bold examples of soft-core pornography (“Medicine for some, I suppose⟳," Tenn quipped), and, desiring a brief respite, a stop⟳ in the Central Grocery, where Tenn had a beer and one of the city's cherished muffuletta sandwiches, which he cut⟳ into four wedges and ate as carefully as he chose his words, which came forth at a slow, painful pace.”

“Ms. Giovanni, who majored in history at Fisk University in Nashville, says this in a big room full of Negrobilia, including sculptures of three black boys eating watermelon and of a black man driving a white man in a buggy.”

“Inside, it was covered in Negrobilia, advertising signs from the first half of the century that featured big-lipped Sambos.”

“As new production dwindled, and many people threw away the old stuff, what was left came to be seen as rare, antique and collectible. A lively aftermarket for Negrobilia and Black Americana developed in the 1980s.”

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