Meanings
- uncountableThe ideology which holds that the black race is superior to all others.
Black supremacy is as bad as white supremacy. God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown and yellow men, God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
1959, Martin Luther King, Jr, Address at the Thirty-fourth Annual Convention of the National Bar Association2 more examples
Within the Nation of Islam theory one may find all of the principles of black nationalism: black separatism, black supremacy, economic independence or "self-sufficiency," and political[…].
1971, Clinton B. Jones, Black Power: An Analysis of Select Strategies for the Implementation of the Concept, page 29Malcolm X's notion of psychic conversion can be understood and used such a way that it does not necessarily entail Black supremacy; it simply rejects Black captivity to white-supremacist ideology and practice.
1996, Theresa Perry, Teaching Malcolm X, page 143 - uncountableA situation in which black people are privileged over other people in society.
And yet the struggle in the Southern States has never been by the blacks for, and by the whites against, a black supremacy, but only for and against an arbitrary pure white supremacy.
1888, George W. Cable, “The Negro Question in the United States”, in The Library Magazine, page 172 more examples
It is the demand for psychological equality and political power that frightens so many white people and which causes black power to be equated with black violence and even black supremacy.
1975, Lewis M. Killian, The Impossible Revolution, Phase 2: Black Power and the ..., page 123Whether the whites now live under majority rule or black supremacy is essentially a semantic matter, for the effects are the same either way. White rule in Africa was called white supremacy because blacks were legislatively barred from equality with whites.
2005, Gerald L'Ange, The White Africans: From Colonisation to Liberation, page 490Synonyms: black privilege
- uncountableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, supremacy.
Great athletes, therefore, are born and not made; this idea of black supremacy in basketball is held by many blacks and whites alike, young and old.
2015, Lori Latrice Martin, White Sports/Black Sports: Racial Disparities in Athletic Programs, page 81
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA situation in which black people are privileged over other people in society.
Translations
Finnish musta ylivalta
- musta ylivaltaideology
Polish czarna supremacja
- czarna supremacjaideology
Spanish supremacismo negro
- supremacismo negroideology
Swedish svart överhöghet
- svart överhöghetideology
Cite this entry
black supremacy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black%20supremacy
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