Meanings
- nonstandardrareuncountableNegrophilia.
This group includes whites who do not support the white pride movement and who may identify with popular black culture (a phenomenon that Yousman, 2003, has termed blackophilia).
2011 July 4, Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and Intergroup Relations: A Festschrift in Honor of Marilynn B. Brewer (Psychology Press Festschrift Series), Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 1682 more examples
The media's perception of "white needs" with regard to the consumption of images of black bodies plays on - in a manner that effortlessly conflates - both the blackophilia (a seductive fascination with racial otherness) and blackophobia (fear and dread of racial otherness) that has always framed the structure and experience of the American racial formation (Yousman 2003; Mercer 1994; Clarke 1991; Rose 1991).
2010 December 28, David J. Leonard, C. Richard King, Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports (Perspectives on a Multiracial America), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 89Bill Yousman (2003) has provided an insightful analysis of what he terms “Blackophilia,” or the love and consumption of Black popular culture, and it connection to “Blackophobia,” or the “fear and dread of African Americans” (p. 366).
2012 August 6, Fern L. Johnson, Imaging in Advertising: Verbal and Visual Codes of Commerce, Routledge, →ISBN, page 104
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blackophilia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blackophilia
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