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The process of making or becoming more black (i.e. of African descent) or more characteristic of black culture..
White entertainers like Eddie Cantor (left) cashed in on the blackenization of White America by imitating Black minstrels in blackface.
Today's blackenization, if you will, of the prisons only exacerbates racist proclivities in nonblack Americans to associate black people with wrong.
By far the most important event for launching the Pentecostal movement, the 1906-9 Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, was led by a black preacher, William Seymour. Thus, tongue speaking and other Pentecostal practices can be interpreted, at least in part, as a 'blackenization' of evangelicalism.
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Blackenization means The process of making or becoming more black (i.e. of African descent) or more characteristic of black culture..
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White entertainers like Eddie Cantor (left) cashed in on the blackenization of White America by imitating Black minstrels in blackface.
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