单词 | negrophilism |
释义 | negrophilismn. Originally U.S. Now chiefly historical. Friendliness (esp. on the part of white people) towards black people; advocacy of the interests or rights of black people; spec. abolitionism (now historical).See usage note at Negro n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > advocacy of black rights or interests negrophilism1846 Negroism1847 niggerism1855 1846 Congress. Globe 18 May 838/1 The gentleman from Ohio.., the advocate of negro-philism. 1859 Harper's Mag. Oct. 694/2 If negrophilism seeks to substitute the Chinaman or the Indiaman for the African, it will neglect all the lessons of experience. 1876 R. F. Burton Two Trips Gorilla Land II. 237 The year 1816 was the Augustan age of outrageous negrophilism. 1904 Nation 11 Aug. 107/3 The President's comments should do good in the South, where the monstrous opinion has grown up that what it calls ‘negrophilism’ in the North regards rape by negroes with an almost apologistic toleration. 1933 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 4 Dec. 9/2 (heading) Universities and negrophilism. 1965 Amer. Q. 17 584 [He] indicates that the Negrophilism of the left has distorted a musical phenomenon and transformed it into a racial one. 1974 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 67 602 ‘Despotism’ and ‘Negrophilism’ were the inseparable essentials of the Republican revolutionary program; only black votes could keep the despotic party in power, and only despotic measures could enforce black suffrage in the South. 1995 J. T. Campbell Songs of Zion ii. iv. 112 The apparent debacle of Jamaican emancipation, culminating in the Morant Bay uprising of 1865, provoked a backlash throughout the British world against what came to be called ‘sentimental negrophilism.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1846 |
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