black supremacy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblæk suˈpɹɛməsi/
• Hyphenation: black su‧prem‧a‧cy

Noun

black supremacy (uncountable)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black,‎ supremacy.
   • 2015, Lori Latrice Martin, White Sports/Black Sports: Racial Disparities in Athletic Programs, page 81:

     Great athletes, therefore, are born and not made; this idea of black supremacy in basketball is held by many blacks and whites alike, young and old.

2. The ideology which holds that the black race is superior to all others.
   • 1959, Martin Luther King, Jr, Address at the Thirty-fourth Annual Convention of the National Bar Association‎^[1]:

     Black supremacy is as bad as white supremacy. God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown and yellow men, God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

   • 1971, Clinton B. Jones, Black Power: An Analysis of Select Strategies for the Implementation of the Concept, page 29:

     Within the Nation of Islam theory one may find all of the principles of black nationalism: black separatism, black supremacy, economic independence or "self-sufficiency," and political […] .

   • 1996, Theresa Perry, Teaching Malcolm X, page 143:

     Malcolm X's notion of psychic conversion can be understood and used such a way that it does not necessarily entail Black supremacy; it simply rejects Black captivity to white-supremacist ideology and practice.

3. A situation in which black people are privileged over other people in society.
   • 1888, George W. Cable, “The Negro Question in the United States”, in The Library Magazine, page 17:

     And yet the struggle in the Southern States has never been by the blacks for, and by the whites against, a black supremacy, but only for and against an arbitrary pure white supremacy.

   • 1975, Lewis M. Killian, The Impossible Revolution, Phase 2: Black Power and the ..., page 123:

     It is the demand for psychological equality and political power that frightens so many white people and which causes black power to be equated with black violence and even black supremacy.

   • 2005, Gerald L'Ange, The White Africans: From Colonisation to Liberation, page 490:

     Whether the whites now live under majority rule or black supremacy is essentially a semantic matter, for the effects are the same either way. White rule in Africa was called white supremacy because blacks were legislatively barred from equality with whites.

Derived terms

• black supremacist

Translations

ideology

• Finnish: musta ylivalta (fi)
• Polish: czarna supremacja n
• Spanish: supremacismo negro m
• Swedish: svart överhöghet c

See also

• white supremacy

Further reading

• “black supremacy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• black supremacy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia