negrophiliac

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adjective

Exhibiting an affection for, or interest in things related to, the black race.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectivenegrophiliac (comparative more negrophiliac, superlative most negrophiliac)

comparative more negrophiliac · superlative most negrophiliac

  1. historicaloffensiveExhibiting an affection for, or interest in things related to, the black race.

    On the other hand, very little attention has been paid to Victor Hugo's negrophiliac novel Bug-Jargal (1826) and to its links with Gómez de Avellaneda's celebrated novel, Sab (1841).

    1999, Adriana Méndez Rodenas, A Place in the Sun? Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Cuba, JSTOR, →ISSN
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    Consequently, this book focuses primarily and critically on the actions of the white or European partner in the negrophiliac relationship, unlike other approaches that are more preoccupied with mythologizing the black and black culture

    2000, Petrine Archer-Straw, “Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s”, in New York: Thames

    At this stage, Gordon sang mostly in English, perhaps also a little in French, but was on the face of it, aurally bringing American music into a Brazilian context. However, there existed an even stronger transoceanic political element to this, for if negrophiliac Paris loved the band, therefore so too should Rio.

    2018 September 15, Michael Brocken, Jeff Daniels, Gordon Stretton, Black British Transoceanic Jazz Pioneer: A New Jazz Chronicle, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 200

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