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Negroism|ˈniːgrəʊɪz(ə)m|
[f. Negro + -ism.]
1. Advancement of Negro interests or rights.
1847Congress. Globe 29th Congress 2 Sess. App. 323/2 He..thanked God that he voted against that Wilmot proviso. It smelt rank of negroism. 1851J. Campbell Negro-mania 549 Who dare say anything in favor of Negroism after having read them? 1861Sat. Rev. 4 May 454 Originated the idea of ‘free negroism’ and started a crusade in favour of inferior races. 1935Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men (1970) 17 When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of negroism. 1970D. Caute Fanon vi. 80 The vague, cosmic cults of Negroism and Arabism.
2. A Negro pronunciation, expression, or idiom.
1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) p. viii, The term ‘Americanisms’..may then be said to include the following classes of words:..8. Negroisms. 1864Spectator 27 Feb. 238/2 ‘Hyur’ for ‘here’..is..a negroism. 1876T. Le M. Douse Grimm's L. 66 The Americanism ‘this child’, or the negroism ‘dis nigger’. 1930G. B. Johnson in B. A. Botkin Treas. S. Folklore (1949) iv. iii. 697 Ax, ask. Not a Negroism, but a usage which was once good English. |