Negroism

[ nee-groh-iz-uhm ]

noun

, (sometimes lowercase)

1. the doctrine or advocacy of equal rights for Black people.
2. a quality or manner, as a speech pattern or pronunciation, considered characteristic of Black people.

Sensitive Note

See Black ¹.

Other Words From

• anti-Negro·ism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Negroism¹

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50; Negro none + -ism none

Example Sentences

“In a way, it would not be a new experience for me. When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of negroism.”

From Washington Post

Would we then in all these advance more rapidly, we must remove slavery and negroism, the retarding cause.

From Project Gutenberg

Maryland, the border States, and the South would then indeed commence a new career of progress, by removing slavery and negroism; and their augmented wealth, and that of the whole country, would soon return to the Government, in increased revenue, a sum far exceeding the cost of gradual emancipation and colonization.

From Project Gutenberg

With our only cause of ignorance and poverty among the people, and only element of discord among the States, extirpated by the gradual removal of slavery and negroism, we would bound forward in a new and wonderful career of power and prosperity.

From Project Gutenberg

And yet the ballet was intensely modern; always you were aware that Derain had been right through the movement—through Fauvism, Negroism, Cubism.

From Project Gutenberg