blacklash
noun/ˈblækˌlæʃ/
Etymology Blend of black + backlash.
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A backlash by black people against other ethnicities or groups.
- This was the blacklash. The whitelash came, too, and blood flowed in the streets.1970 January 23, John H. Britton, “Into age of sick seventies”, in Jet magazine, page 7:
- Nor is this the only case of racial thinking in contemporary thought . A "blacklash" may partly motivate the Afrocentrist movement among African-American scholars.1994, Dean Keith Simonton, Greatness: Who Makes History and Why, page 30:
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- 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).2000, Beverly Greene, Gladys L. Croom, Education, Research, and Practice in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Psychology, page 21: