postblack

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

postblack (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a paradoxical form of black racial identity that rejects the notion that race matters.

   Coordinate term: postracial

   • 2009, M. Marable, Kristen Clarke, Barack Obama and African American Empowerment: The Rise of Black America's New Leadership, Springer, →ISBN, page 165:

     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.

Further reading

• post-black art on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• post-blackness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• black spot, black tops, black-tops, blackspot, blacktops