blackwashing
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
Derogatory; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "If Pindell opposes the 'whitewashing' of history, then Walker's is a revisionist blackwashing."
- "This “blackwashing,” in Hare's opinion, was the work of black studies departments and the black faculty […]"
- "The blackwashing is here to be the very last operation, and to be well performed, and when dry must be polished by a large sleeker fitting the circle of the cylinder."
- "Historical writing proliferates in examples of tendentious accounts of national history, where the “whitewashing” of one history goes hand in hand with the “blackwashing” of another."