postblack
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From post- + black; coined in the late 1990s.
Adjective
[edit]postblack (not comparable)
- Of or relating to a paradoxical form of black racial identity that rejects the notion that race matters.
- Coordinate term: postracial
- 2009, M. Marable, Kristen Clarke, Barack Obama and African American Empowerment: The Rise of Black America's New Leadership, Springer, →ISBN, page 165:
- It is impossible to understand the role of race in Barack Obama's candidacy without examining the idea of “postblack” or “postracial” politics and the evolution of African American politics.
Further reading
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post-black art on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - post-blackness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
