transblack
adjEtymology From trans- + black.
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Neologism, Rare, Of a person 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:
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- […] Was Rachel Dolezal transblack, or just a white woman in blackface?2019, Zachary Kramer, Outsiders: Why Difference is the Future of Civil Rights, Oxford University Press, →ISBN: