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blackenization

noun

Etymology

From blacken + -ization.

  1. inherited from blaknen
  2. suffixed as blackenization — “blacken + ization”

Definitions

  1. The process of making or becoming more black (i.e. of African descent) or more…

    The process of making or becoming more black (i.e. of African descent) or more characteristic of black culture.

    • White entertainers like Eddie Cantor (left) cashed in on the blackenization of White America by imitating Black minstrels in blackface.
    • Today's blackenization, if you will, of the prisons only exacerbates racist proclivities in nonblack Americans to associate black people with wrong.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA