blackwashing

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.

   • If Pindell opposes the 'whitewashing' of history, then Walker's is a revisionist blackwashing.
   • This “blackwashing,” in Hare's opinion, was the work of black studies departments and the black faculty […]
2. 2

   The application of a coating of blackwash.

   • The blackwashing is here to be the very last operation, and to be well performed, and when dry must be polished by a large sleeker fitting the circle of the cylinder.
3. 3

   The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.

   • Historical writing proliferates in examples of tendentious accounts of national history, where the “whitewashing” of one history goes hand in hand with the “blackwashing” of another.
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   1. 4

      present participle and gerund of blackwash

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• antonymwhitewashing