negrobilia

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noun

Collectibles that portray stereotypes of black people.

Scrabble 13

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negrobilia1

nounnegrobilia (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of Negrobilia.

    Birdie's negrobilia provides both identity and security, reminders of a time when she was black and had a sister.

    2007, Deborah Clarke, Driving Women, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    Then the third thought, and the tears would have begun to fall now as she saw that the box of negrobilia was missing. That the Golliwog was missing.

    2013, Danzy Senna, From Caucasia, with Love, →ISBN, page 306

    ... along the way stopped for pounds of coffee, items of negrobilia, chunks of pralines, a glance at a drugstore window that featured both vintage advertising and bold examples of soft-core pornography (“Medicine for some, I suppose," Tenn quipped), and, desiring a brief respite, a stop in the Central Grocery, where Tenn had a beer and one of the city's cherished muffuletta sandwiches, which he cut into four wedges and ate as carefully as he chose his words, which came forth at a slow, painful pace.

    2015, James Grissom, Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog, →ISBN

Negrobilia2

nounNegrobilia (uncountable)
  1. uncountableCollectibles that portray stereotypes of black people.

    Inside, it was covered in Negrobilia, advertising signs from the first half of the century that featured big-lipped Sambos.

    1998, Christopher John Farley, My Favorite War: A Novel, →ISBN, page 246
    2 more examples

    Ms. Giovanni, who majored in history at Fisk University in Nashville, says this in a big room full of Negrobilia, including sculptures of three black boys eating watermelon and of a black man driving a white man in a buggy.

    1996, The New York Times Biographical Service - Volume 27, page 1128

    As new production dwindled, and many people threw away the old stuff, what was left came to be seen as rare, antique and collectible. A lively aftermarket for Negrobilia and Black Americana developed in the 1980s.

    2007, John Strausbaugh, Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture, →ISBN

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