Black woman
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1.0
- noun
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- It's inspiring to see a Black woman succeed in her career despite many challenges.
- white and Black women
- young Black woman
- middle-class Black women
And she was a black woman in this woke era.
- And she was a black woman in this woke era.
- Joe Biden is going to pick a black woman who is also qualified.
- You don't defend black women, you know what I mean?
- I heard institutional racism is that more black women die in childbirth.
- White man, black man, white woman, black woman.
- It's like, like I said, for long periods of time, black women, black men, you can't have dreads.
- I just hate like when some of these movements use black women when it's convenient for them.
- But in the party of DI, you can't skip a black woman.
- A wealthy white man has been accused of raping a young black woman.
- And I know you're not saying that, but I know a lot of amazing black women, so I'm sure I can find some.
Examples
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All Black women are exhausted.
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My colleague and I are both Black women and self-identify as writers.
Academic text (2012) -
And would it be a good thing if more black women married across group lines?
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We're in here today with two lovely black ladies, Black women, black girl magic business owners.
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Do you know all the questions Black women have for Black men?
Fiction book (1993) -
And she would be the first Black woman to sit on the US Supreme Court.
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Joe Biden is going to pick a black woman who is also qualified.
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That she was a young Black woman, just like you guys, and that she deserves to be seen, and that she deserves to be heard.
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It was wonderful to see a black woman running for vice president.
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I'd love for you all to tell me why it's important that black women define themselves as feminists.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a woman who is Black' is a straightforward composition of the adjective 'black' (denoting racial/ethnic identity) and the noun 'woman', so a B1 learner who knows both words can derive the intended meaning. While 'black' can also denote clothing color in some contexts, capitalization and contextual cues typically disambiguate this, and the adjective+noun pattern for describing ethnicity is cross-linguistically common, supporting full transparency.
Etymology
Black woman combines Black, a word people use for darker skin and a shared African background, and woman, which means an adult female. So Black woman means 'a woman who is Black, especially of African descent'.