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negrohood

negrohood

1 9.9
A community of Black people, a term now considered offensive
  • noun
  • /ˈniːɡroʊhʊd/
  • Slur
: comunidad de negros (ofensivo, anticuado)
  • Fanon puts it more poetically: "Without a Negro past, without a Negro future, I could not live my Negrohood."

Examples

  • "Without a Negro past, without a Negro future, it was impossible for me to live my Negrohood." 61

    Academic text (1994)

  • She responded to such criticism by saying that she was not a member of "that sobbing school of Negrohood" who say that "nature has somehow given them a lowdown dirty deal."

    Fiction book (2002)

  • "Without a Negro past, without a Negro future, it was impossible for me to live my negrohood."

  • "Fanon puts it more poetically: 'Without a Negro past, without a Negro future, I could not live my negrohood.'"

  • "She responded to such criticism by saying that she was not a member of 'that sobbing school of negrohood' who argue that nature has somehow given them a lowdown dirty deal."

Synonyms

Black race
vsnegrohood
  • Archaic
12 8.6

A group of people with dark skin, often with African heritage, a term now seen as old-fashioned

is used to mean the community and carries offensive historical connotations

Surface Forms

negrohood singular
negrohoods plural

Morphology

negrohood = negro (transparent) = negro + hood

Formed by the productive suffix '-hood' attached to 'negro', yielding a meaning of group, state, or neighborhood; morphologically transparent though the term is archaic and offensive.

Etymology

Negrohood comes from Spanish and Portuguese negro 'black' plus the English -hood, which makes words for groups like brotherhood, so it once meant the community or collective body of Black people, but the word is now considered offensive and is avoided.