postblack

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Definition of postblack

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

(not-comparable)Of or relating to a paradoxical form of black racial identity that rejects the notion that race matters.

“It is impossible to understand the role of race in Barack Obama's candidacy without examining the idea of “postblack” or “postracial” politics and the evolution of African American politics.”

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From post- + black; coined in the late 1990s.

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