单词 | black power |
释义 | black powern. Power for black people; used as a slogan of varying implication and (usually with capital initials) as the name of a movement in support of civil rights and political power for black people.The movement was especially prominent in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > equality > specific civil rights organization ACLU1923 black power1954 Chicano movement1968 1954 R. Wright (title) Black power. 1965 Ebony Nov. 29/1 A few blocks away [from the Charleston Club]..a South Carolina convention had taken the first step toward Appomattox and Black Power. 1966 Guardian 28 June 8/1 The emergence of the slogan ‘black power’, proclaimed by the supporters of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. 1967 S. Carmichael & C. V. Hamilton Black Power ii. 44 The concept of Black Power..is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. 1991 Geogr. Mag. Feb. 26/4 White America briefly embraced ‘black power’, soul music and ‘afro’ hair-styles back in the 1960s. 2007 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 June 56/3 The freedom of the generation of black writers who emerged as Black Power waned. Compounds C1. General attributive, as black power leader, black power movement, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > [noun] > power of the people > of specific groups slave-power1859 student power1862 woman power1927 black power1966 1966 Times 27 June 1/4 Young Negroes.., supporters of the ‘black power’ group led by Mr Stokely Carmichael. 1966 N.Y. Times 2 July 24/2 The ‘black power’ movement launched recently by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. 1970 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 4 Sept. Blacks..are developing a ‘Black Power’ concept that they hope will unite Africans, Coloureds, Malays and Indians in a solid ‘Black’ front opposing White domination. 1988 H. Dodson in H. A. Jacobs Incidents Life Slave Girl p. xxiv The civil rights and black power movements created unprecedented interest in the thought, behavior, and achievements of black people. 2000 A. Calcutt Brit Cult 116/2 One of the keynote cultural/political events of the decade, a conference entitled ‘The Dialectics of Liberation’ which featured black power leader Eldridge Cleaver. C2. black power salute n. a gesture consisting of a raised arm with a clenched fist, signifying solidarity with the aims of the black power movement. ΚΠ 1967 Chicago Daily Defender 27 Sept. 16/4 A plainclothed Negro cop walked downstairs and made the clenched fist, crooked arm black power salute. 1968 Ebony Dec. 160/2 Standing motionless and looking down toward the ground, the athletes each raised a clenched, black-gloved fist in a black power salute. 1992 Atlantic Dec. 74/1 The leaders among Boomer blacks, once known for the Afro cut and the black-power salute, are..preaching a strict new standard of group pride, family integrity, and community loyalty. 2001 H. Gilbert Postcolonial Plays 13/1 The clenched fists of Black Power salutes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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