Meaning

Alternative letter-case form of Blackademic..

Example Sentences

Nick wasn’t what he’d had in mind for Billie. He’d planned on a blackademic just like himself. Herbert was the son of teachers who had instilled their deep love of education into him.

It’s about an untenured black professor, a “blackademic,” obsessed with Edgar Allen^([sic]) Poe’s novel “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” and the possibility of finding a remote island of pure blackness—the last bastion of the African diaspora—in Antarctica.

My uncle, Kevin Gaines, first demonstrated what being a blackademic meant. He wrote aspirational scholarship, introduced me to his colleagues, read and graciously critiqued my work, and answered all my questions about the professoriate.

Word Forms

• blackademics

When Should You Use Blackademic?

Use blackademic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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