Afro-Saxonn.adj.
/ˌafrəʊˈsaksn/, U.S. /ˌæfroʊˈsæks(ə)n/ Originally U.S. (colloquial and occasionally derogatory).
A. n.
A person of African descent who identifies closely with English or Anglo-American culture and values.
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1902 P. J. Healy Reasons for Non-exclusion 24 He..worked for wages that tempted neither the Afro-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon, nor the Paddy-Saxon.
1946 Chicago Defender 17 Aug. 13/2 When they accuse the U.S. and Britain of forming an ‘Anglo-Saxon Bloc’ in United Nations, they include us Afro-Saxons and Anglo-Africans.
1970 Jet 29 Oct. 32 An Afro-Saxon is a Black West Indian whose feet are in the West Indies and whose head is in the British Parliament.
1995 L. Gunst Born fi' Dead (1996) i. 69 To this day Jamaicans sometimes refer to themselves as Afro-Saxons, admitting that they are still bedeviled by their reverence for English skin and English ways.
2007 C. F. Peterson DuBois, Fanon, Cabral ii. 44 Where DuBois would argue the downtrodden masses need the civilizing touch of the Afro-Saxon, in truth it is the elite that needs the mass.
B. adj.
Originally: African and Anglo-American. In later use: of or relating to Afro-Saxons.
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1946 Life 25 Nov. 125/3 (caption) The decade's most suitable symbol was the Afro-Saxon art of the jitterbug.
1971 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 12 July e12/3 The sharp ethnic antagonisms which exacerbate racial tensions in New York or Chicago simply do not exist to the same degree in the Afro-Saxon South.
1995 L. Gunst Born fi' Dead (1996) i. 76 They challenged every one of Jamaica's social norms: ‘churchical’ Christianity, hair-straightened Afro-Saxon primness.
2002 Internat. Jrnl. Afr. Hist. Stud. 35 554 The rank and file was more accepting of an African-American subculture than what the author terms as the Afro-Saxon values of the elite.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.adj.1902