Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lactification

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lac-t-i-fi-ca-tion
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

6

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The whitening of a black race.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"However, in stark contrast with the lactification principle so denigrated by Fanon, she decides to abort and come home. She will eventually become involved with a local Black trade unionist."
"He condemns the latter for advocating in her novels what he terms as the lactification principle: the coloured woman's rejection of her self and her assumption of the white man's identity through a relationship, generally sexual[…]"

Etymology

See lactify (“to make or become milky”). Coined in sociological sense by Frantz Fanon.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does lactification mean?: The whitening of a black race.
Where does lactification come from?: See lactify (“to make or become milky”). Coined in sociological sense by Frantz Fanon.

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