anti-blackadj.
/ˌantɪˈblak/, U.S. /ˌænˌtaɪˈblæk/, /ˌæn(t)iˈblæk/, /ˌæn(t)əˈblæk/ Prejudiced, antagonistic, or discriminatory towards black people; expressing or characterized by racism of this type.Earlier currency is perhaps indicated by quot. 1831, referring to an alias used by the writer of a letter sent to a Tasmanian newspaper during the time of the Black War, between Aboriginal Australians and British colonists, from the mid 1820s to the early 1830s.
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anti-black1835
ethnocentric1861
racialistic1904
racist1923
racialist1924
völkisch1939
racistic1950
ethnocentred2003
1831 Colonial Times (Hobart, Austral.) 14 Jan. The letters of..‘Anti-black Job’, and ‘Trader’, are evidently intended to meet views which a Journalist should never sanction.]
1835 G. Thompson Let. 22 Oct. in Lett. & Addr. (1837) 108 Anti-men and anti-women, anti-black, and anti-red, and anti-meat, and anti-drink riots, and mobs, and persecutions,..have distinguished this age.
1884 J. H. McCarthy Eng. under Gladstone v. 82 The Rev. Mr. Mackenzie, a strong sympathiser with the native races, although not a very popular person with the aggressively anti-black Africanders, was appointed British Resident in Bechuanaland.
1964 Kenyon Rev. 26 95 I always thank Christ she can't see the anti-black graffiti in the men's all over London these days.
2020 Guardian (Nexis) 13 Sept. Demonstrations against anti-black racism and extrajudicial police killings broke out all over the world in the wake of the unlawful asphyxiation of George Floyd.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1835