blacklash

English

Etymology

Blend of black +‎ backlash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblækˌlæʃ/

Noun

blacklash (plural blacklashes)

1. A backlash by black people against other ethnicities or groups. [from 1970]

   Coordinate term: whitelash

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

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

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

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

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

     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).