negrolatry

English

From negro +‎ -latry.

negrolatry (uncountable)

(offensive, rare) literally, the worship of Negroes; figuratively, showing a degree of admiration and respect for people of African descent which the speaker considers undeserved
- 1937, Lowell Joseph Ragatz, “Review of: William Law Matheison, The Sugar Colonies and Governor Eyre, 1849–1866, New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1936”, in The American Historical Review‎, volume 42, number 4, page 824:
  Many readers will go further and hail him as an unfortunate victim of negrophilism and negrolatry among ignorant sentimentalists and professional busybodies in the home country
- 1949, René Maunier, The Sociology of the Colonies (Part 1): An Introduction to the Study of Race Contact‎, Taylor and Francis, →ISBN, page 59:
  Negrophilia, negromania, negrolatry ended in due course by infecting the Negroes themselves.

worship of Negroes (offensive)