blacklash

Blend of black +‎ backlash.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblækˌlæʃ/

blacklash (plural blacklashes)

1. A backlash by black people against other ethnicities or groups. [from 1970]

   Coordinate term: whitelash

   • 1970 January, John H. Britton, “Into age of sick seventies”, in Jet magazine, page 7:

     This was the blacklash. The whitelash came, too, and blood flowed in the streets.

   • 1994, Dean Keith Simonton, Greatness: Who Makes History and Why, page 30:

     Nor is this the only case of racial thinking in contemporary thought . A "blacklash" may partly motivate the Afrocentrist movement among African-American scholars.

   • 2000, Beverly Greene, ‎Gladys L. Croom, Education, Research, and Practice in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Psychology (page 21)

     Such thinking contributes to preexisting resentful attitudes towards lesbians and gay men and prompts what Gates calls a "blacklash" or a view that being lesbian or gay is a chosen identity and a mere inconvenience, whereas being black is to "inherit a legacy of hardship and inequity" (p. 42).