Blackwashing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Blackwashing is a noun meaning (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
Meaning
(derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
More Meanings
- The application of a coating of blackwash.
- (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.
- present participle and gerund of blackwash
Example Sentences
If Pindell opposes the 'whitewashing' of history, then Walker's is a revisionist blackwashing.
This “blackwashing,” in Hare's opinion, was the work of black studies departments and the black faculty […]
The blackwashing is here to be the very last operation, and to be well performed, and when dry must be polished by a large sleeker fitting the circle of the cylinder.
Historical writing proliferates in examples of tendentious accounts of national history, where the “whitewashing” of one history goes hand in hand with the “blackwashing” of another.
Antonyms for blackwashing
Common opposites include whitewashing.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include whitewashing, blackening, brandwash, negrification, blacklisting, blacklegism.
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