Definitions

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  • noun The state or period of being a Negro.

Etymologies

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Negro +‎ -hood

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Examples

  • This remarkable woman was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance, a black, individualist literary school that rejected "the sobbing school of Negrohood."

    The Shotgun 2009

  • She describes this group as "the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a dirty deal".

    CounterPunch 2009

  • She describes this group as "the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a dirty deal".

    CounterPunch 2009

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