non-blackadj.n.

1905 Bot. Gaz. 40 314 The whites extracted from the non-black members of these crosses proved to be pure albinos incapable of producing black offspring.

1926 D. M. Liddell Handbk. Non-ferrous Metall. I. ix. 283 No radiation pyrometer has been found to be very useful for measuring temperatures of non-black bodies.

1979 T. B. Akrill et al. Physics xxviii. 377/2 For a non-black or ‘grey’ body we can apply Stefan's law in the form P_tot = εσAT⁴, where ε is called the total emissivity of the body and is a number always less than 1.

1989 M. K. Matossian Poisons of Past ii. 39 The central nonblack-soil region of Russia..was cursed with both the ‘right’ climate and the ‘right’ Claviceps strains for high alkaloid yields.

1961 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 30 229/1 The sine qua non of a successful revolt is the participation of a substantial part of the disaffected non-black community.

1971 N.Y. Times 14 Feb. vii. 12/3 There are no concessions made to the nonblack reader.

1990 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 2 Feb. 665/1 We prospectively studied 9703 nonblack women.

1953 G. Magwaza in Drum (Johannesburg) Apr. 29 Natives is meaningless... I'm now toying with blacks and non-blacks.

1968 Population Index 34 142 The major variations among the states were not those between nonwhites of North and South but rather between the nonblack and the black in the nonwhite group.

1973 Black World Apr. 20/2 Expertly directed by a non-Black, the musical played to standing-room audiences.

1990 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 55 513/2 For convenience I refer to nonblacks as whites throughout, since groups other than whites make up only a small percentage of nonblacks.