Meanings
- uncountableA fear or dislike of black people, especially African-Americans.
2003, Arnold Wolfcastle, Arrest warrant confirmed? Homosexual Michael Jackson Group: soc.culture.europe And still delusional that the Republicans really want you in their party. You do know after the voting comes the burning of the crosses don't you. Blackophobia is self loathing.
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This paper uses the phenomenon of White youth identification with rap music to argue that Blackophilia (manifested by White consumption of Black popular culture) is linked with Blackophobia (fear and dread of African Americans).
2003, B Yousman, Blackophilia and blackophobia: White youth, the consumption of rap music, and white supremacy, linkThe stigmatizing of Blacks as a perceived serious threat to public safety is a phenomenon called "Blackophobia" (Gab- bidon, 1994).
2006, Everrett Penn, Race and Juvenile Justice, page 592006, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of God, Anti-Japhetism (Japhetophobia or Whitophobia) is Group: talk.origins Anti-Japhetism (Japhetophobia or Whitophobia) is as abominable as Anti-Semitism (Semitophobia or Yellophobia) and anti-Hamism (Hamophobia or Blackophobia) and should be fought relentlessly and ruthlessly.
It also sometimes betrays a kind of fear or dislike—a kind of, for lack of a better term, Blackophobia.
2008, S Adam, Africa in Japanese Diplomatic Thought: An African Perspective, linkSynonyms: melanophobia, Negrophobia
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA fear or dislike of black people, especially African-Americans.
Origin
Cite this entry
Blackophobia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Blackophobia
“Blackophobia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Blackophobia. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Blackophobia,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Blackophobia.
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