blacklash

plural blacklashes

1. A backlash by black people against other ethnicities or groups.First known use 1970

   This was the blacklash. The whitelash came, too, and blood flowed in the streets.

   1970 January 29, John H. Britton, “Into age of sick seventies”, in Jet magazine, page 7

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   Nor is this the only case of racial thinking in contemporary thought . A "blacklash" may partly motivate the Afrocentrist movement among African-American scholars.

   1994, Dean Keith Simonton, Greatness: Who Makes History and Why, page 30

   Such thinking contributes to preexisting resentful attitudes towards lesbians and gay men and prompts what Gates calls a "blacklash" or a view that being lesbian or gay is a chosen identity and a mere inconvenience, whereas being black is to "inherit a legacy of hardship and inequity" (p. 42).

   2000, Beverly Greene, Gladys L. Croom, Education, Research, and Practice in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Psychology, page 21