blackenization

English

Etymology

blacken +‎ -ization

Noun

blackenization (uncountable)

1. The process of making or becoming more black (i.e. of African descent) or more characteristic of black culture.
   • 1980, Louie Robinson, "The Blackening of White America", Ebony, May 1980, page 162 (image caption):

     White entertainers like Eddie Cantor (left) cashed in on the blackenization of White America by imitating Black minstrels in blackface.

   • 2001, Mark Lewis Taylor, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 28:

     Today's blackenization, if you will, of the prisons only exacerbates racist proclivities in nonblack Americans to associate black people with wrong.

   • 2007, Mark Hulsether, Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Twentieth-century United States, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 68:

     By far the most important event for launching the Pentecostal movement, the 1906-9 Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, was led by a black preacher, William Seymour. Thus, tongue speaking and other Pentecostal practices can be interpreted, at least in part, as a 'blackenization' of evangelicalism.