colourphobiacolorphobian.
/ˌkʌləˈfəʊbɪə/, U.S. /ˌkələrˈfoʊbiə/ Chiefly U.S. Now chiefly historical.
Hatred of or hostility towards black people (esp. with reference to African-Americans); prejudice against black people.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > racism > fear or prejudice on grounds of colour
negromania1783
negrophobia1819
colourphobia1834
colour prejudice1841
anti-blackness1967
1834 C. Stuart 28 July in Abolitionist 1 92 The presence of this polluting drop distorts all righteousness..and nothing will satisfy the colour-phobia which it excites, but colonization or eternal slavery!
1863 W. Phillips Speeches iii. 48 The Mayor and Aldermen..have been such slaves of colorphobia, that they did not choose to execute this law.
1887 Church at Home & Abroad Oct. 373/1 The presence of colorphobia is usually seen and felt in railroad cars, hotels and places of amusement, and even in the house of God.
1940 Crisis Sept. 300/3 Nor can a Negro forget that England is the fountainhead of the present almost worldwide colorphobia.
2000 M. E. Bay White Image in Black Mind i. 32 A colorphobia so ubiquitous that it even compromised their [sc. black thinkers'] white allies in the antislavery movement.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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