political blackness
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.09 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The use of the word black as an umbrella term to refer to all non-white people, with the aim of increased solidarity among people likely to experience discrimination based on skin color.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[…] criticism of political blackness emerged from the 'Bristol school of multiculturalism'. A particularly robust critic was the sociologist Tariq Modood, who argued that the blanket term black 'harmed British Asians' by eliding their specific experiences and downplaying their own cultural inheritances."