Negroism
Americannoun
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the doctrine or advocacy of equal rights for Black people.
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a quality or manner, as a speech pattern or pronunciation, considered characteristic of Black people.
Sensitive Note
See Black 1.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Negroism
Example Sentences
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And yet the ballet was intensely modern; always you were aware that Derain had been right through the movement—through Fauvism, Negroism, Cubism.
From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell
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