blackify

blackify

English

Etymology

From black +‎ -ify.

Verb

blackify (third-person singular simple present blackifies, present participle blackifying, simple past and past participle blackified)

1. (transitive) To convert (e.g. a country, a group, etc) to the black race or culture.
   • 1995, Lisa Block de Behar, A Rhetoric of Silence and Other Selected Writings →ISBN, translating a word by Manuel Puig, page 269:

     Her France seems to her undoubtedly blackified [transl. negrificada] and Jewish.

   • 2005, Paul Spickard, What's Critical about White Studies, in Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion →ISBN, page 123:

     There is another theme to some studies of whiteness by white feminists, and it borders on an assertion that We Are Other, Too. It is the implication that femaleness blackifies, that because a white person or group is female that person or group does not partake of white privilege to the same degree as do white males.