Afro-americanismn.
/ˌafrəʊəˈmɛrᵻkənɪz(ə)m/, /ˌafrəʊəˈmɛrᵻkn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌæfroʊəˈmɛrəkənɪz(ə)m/ Afro-American character, culture, or language. Also: something peculiar to or characteristic of this, esp. a word, phrase, or mode of expression.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > character or quality > specific
Afro-americanism1890
Waspdom1969
Waspiness1983
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > American English > African American English > idiom of
Negroism1830
niggerism1869
Afro-americanism1890
1890 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 3 Jan. Negroes..showing the full effects of the mixture of alcohol and ‘Afro-Americanism’.
1901 N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 280 One no more feels a quality of Afro-Americanism [in the work of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington] than one feels in the work of Mr. Dunbar.
1929 C. McKay Banjo i. i. 12 They liked his presence, his voice, his language of rich Aframericanisms.
1969 Harper's Mag. May 37/1 Afro-Americanism, black studies, the Negro heritage.
1974 H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens iv. 123 The urban, black..vocabulary, which I call the jive lexicon but which has also been referred to as..Afro-Americanism.
1983 R. Russell Jazz Style in Kansas City xiv. 144 Staid Carnegie Hall rang with Afro-Americanisms until an hour or two after the intended curtain time.
2009 A. Blakely in D. C. Hine et al. Black Europe & Afr. Diaspora i. 23 The young generation [of Portuguese Africans]... start searching for an identity and end up finding it in other forms of being African, primarily in Afro-Americanism.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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