blackstream

adj

Etymology

Blend of black + mainstream, coined by Elsa Honig Fine in her paper Mainstream, Blackstream and the Black Art Movement (1971).

  1. derived from *srew-
  2. inherited from *srowmos
  3. inherited from *straumaz
  4. inherited from *straum
  5. inherited from strēam
  6. inherited from streem
  7. compounded as mainstream — “main + stream
  8. compounded as blackstream — “black + mainstream

Definitions

  1. Conforming to the mainstream, with the exception of depicting people with black skin

    Conforming to the mainstream, with the exception of depicting people with black skin; not being a distinctively black style of art.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for blackstream. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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