What does blackophilia mean?
Blackophilia means (nonstandard, rare) Negrophilia..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(nonstandard, rare) Negrophilia..
The media's perception of "white needs" with regard to the consumption of images of black bodies plays on - in a manner that effortlessly conflates - both the blackophilia (a seductive fascination with racial otherness) and blackophobia (fear and dread of racial otherness) that has always framed the structure and experience of the American racial formation (Yousman 2003; Mercer 1994; Clarke 1991; Rose 1991).
This group includes whites who do not support the white pride movement and who may identify with popular black culture (a phenomenon that Yousman, 2003, has termed blackophilia).
Bill Yousman (2003) has provided an insightful analysis of what he terms “Blackophilia,” or the love and consumption of Black popular culture, and it connection to “Blackophobia,” or the “fear and dread of African Americans” (p. 366).
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Blackophilia means (nonstandard, rare) Negrophilia..
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The media's perception of "white needs" with regard to the consumption of images of black bodies plays on - in a manner that effortlessly conflates - both the blackophilia (a seductive fascination with racial otherness) and blackophobia (fear and dread of racial otherness) that has always framed the structure and experience of the American racial formation (Yousman 2003; Mercer 1994; Clarke 1991; Rose 1991).
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