Citations:black

English citations of black

adj.: of any of various typically dark-skinned peoples (including Aborigines)

• 1995, Irene Moores, Voices of Aboriginal Australia: Past, Present, Future:

  “ […] and 'What percentage of you is Aboriginal?' — all those questions were what I'd grown up with around me, so it is actually quite a long process, feeling that I could comfortably identify as black.”

• 2001, Anthropologica, page 284:

  Intense anxiety about "racial mixing" resulted in efforts to keep black and white socially separate: "cohabitation" between Aboriginal women and white men was prohibited, marriages were regulated through a special permit system, and ...

adj.: of any of various typically dark-skinned peoples (including Aborigines, not including Maori)

• 2004, Derrick Bell, Race, Racism, and American Law, Aspen Pub:

  page 91: The question of black Australian identity at the dawn of the twenty-first century is a complex one. Aboriginal leaders throughout the 1960s and up to today have looked to the black struggle in the United States for inspiration. Today, however, many younger Aboriginal leaders question this identification and have aligned themselves more closely with indigenous peoples around the world, such as with Native Americans, for example. This trend has been reflected in the political struggles on which Aboriginal leaders have focused. In recent years, they have increasingly focused on land rights and a treaty, though, of course, civil rights issues are still very much a part of the black agenda.

  page 93: Unlike Aboriginal Australians, Maori do not identify themselves as black, nor do they look to the black struggle in the United States as a model for their own struggle.

• 2018, Jeremy Prestholdt, Icons of Dissent, pages 87-88:

  In the 1970s, identification as black had become an evocative political claim in Australia that linked the struggle of Aboriginal peoples with Third World liberation discourse. Bob Marley's message of black empowerment, self-direction, and self-realization therefore found a sizable audience among Australia's indigenous minority. […] Early Aboriginal reggae bands [...framed] the plight of Aboriginal Australians within the context of global black liberation. […] Bob Marley's message, and that of reggae generally, accorded with New Zealand's Black Power movement as well. […] Reggae's message of liberation resonated strongly with indigenous rights activists. For instance, among Maori […] Politically oriented ensembles, such as the group Herbs, employed reggae to articulate Maori and wider Polynesian experiences […] Reggae's population contributed to and reflected new forms of individual and communal identity that explicitly linked the experiences of black people in New Zealand to others around the world.

adj.: of any of various typically dark-skinned peoples (not including Maori)

• 1975, Richard Thompson, Retreat from Apartheid: New Zealand's Sporting Contacts with South Africa, Wellington ; New York : Oxford University Press

  A New Zealand columnist explained in a South African newspaper that Maoris not only looked white, they also shared white prejudices about black people.

• 1987, Robert Staples, The Urban Plantation, page 66:

  Because of their native status, the Maoris have a special relationship to their white settler government that black Americans do not.

• 1999, Fredrick McKissack, Black hands, white sails: the story of African-American whalers, page 60:

  Besides Afrcan Americans, New Bedford had a large population of other seamen of color who served on whale ships. Ship records show there were Afro-Portuguese from the islands of Cape Verde, the Azores, and other islands off the coast of Africa; Native Americans; Caribbean blacks; Latin American Indians; Maori from New Zealand and Australian aborigines; Pacific Islanders; and Malayans.

adj.: of any of various typically dark-skinned peoples, including Aborigines and Maori mistakenly assumed to be African

• 1977 May, Ebony, volume 32, number 7, page 48, quoting a Nigerian journalist:

  Beyond that, never before had such an immense congregation of Black and African peoples been attempted. The aborigines of Australia, the blacks of Papua New Guinea and of Surinam may have dreamed of Africa, but they could hardly have anticipated an occasion when they would come to their ancestral home, […]

adj.: of or descended from various African peoples

• 2019, Rainier Spencer, Spurious Issues: Race And Multiracial Identity Politics In The United States, Routledge (→ISBN):

  A person who has only one Afro American and three white grandparents might self-identify as either black or white, whie a person woh has one white and three Afro-American grandparents might possible do the same. They could clearly, in American society, both self-identify as black.

adj.: other citations

• 2004, Public Health Reports, page 176:

                              Prostate cancer incidence rate   Racial distribution (%)

                              United States                              United States   Canada

  All races             151.9                                           100                  100

  Black                  222.9                                           12                     2

  White                  147.3                                            83                    88

  Asian or

  Pacific Islander   81.5                                              4                      7

  Native American

  or Aboriginal       46.5                                              1                      3

noun: a member or descendant of any of various typically dark-skinned peoples (not including Maori)

• 1979, Second Symposium on Epidemiology and Cancer Registries, page 139:

  […] is too small for any firm conclusions to be made about leukemia and lymphoma incidence in this group. The incidence of these diseases in certain other nonwhite Pacific rim residents (i.e., Mexican Americans, blacks, and Maoris) is, by […]

• 2004, Vanessa Martin (RGN.), Cleft Care: A Practical Guide for Health Professionals on Cleft Lip And/or Palate, APS Publishing:

  It is also high in Japanese and Chinese communities, but lower among blacks and Maoris (Croen et al, 1998).

verb: to become black

• 1967, William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, May 1976 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 14:

  His flower blacked at five thirty-nine.