Black man
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- noun
- /blæk mæn/
:
hombre negro
- The 2016 Presidential Election Process: One Black Man's Perspective
- young Black man
- Black men and women
- percent of Black men
We are black men in a white man's skin.
- We are black men in a white man's skin.
- Who better to connect with young black men than Tim Walz?
- What mattered was that a black man had made it against huge odds.
- Or let's say James Gates is a black man, a distinguished physicist.
- Just to see a black man in his position.
- We have seen social scientists demonize young black men as super predators.
- It was just how fitting that a black man discovered the black hole.
- But yet these nonviolent crimes send black men to their graves.
- I wanted Carter to represent a strong black man, a strong masculine black man.
- You know, the Panthers, it was very much a black man, man leading.
- White man, black man, white woman, black woman.
- I'm an amazing black man in America, Sir.
- You know, last week we talked about do black men get nervous?
- I'm I'm not a young black man and I never was.
Examples
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Black men can vote, Charles.
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What mattered was that a black man had made it against huge odds.
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But I think as a black man, let me be very, very clear.
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White man, black man, white woman, black woman.
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You know, last week we talked about do black men get nervous?
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Just to see a black man in his position.
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And unfortunately, as black men, we failed in that sense.
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Because the first thing a Black man has to do is respect himself.
Fiction book (1992) -
Who better to connect with young black men than Tim Walz?
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As a black man, he often faced challenges in his career that others did not encounter.
Synonyms
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A person with dark skin, often of African ancestry
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A person with dark skin whose family comes from Africa
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a man who is Black or of Black African ancestry' is directly and transparently derived from combining the adjective 'Black' (denoting racial/skin-colour identity) with 'man' (an adult male). This adjective+noun compositional pattern is standard and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Black man comes from using the color black to describe darker skin and the word man for an adult male, so together they mean 'a man with dark skin or family background from Africa'. That simple picture of color plus person explains why the phrase is used today.