negrophilic

English

Etymology

negro +‎ -philic

Adjective

negrophilic (comparative more negrophilic, superlative most negrophilic)

1. Characterized by negrophilia.
   • 1997, Thomas Foster, Carol Siegel, Ellen E. Berry, Sex Positives?: Cultural Politics of Dissident Sexualities (Genders (Austin, Tex.))‎^[1], NYU Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 150:

     These photographs, in social and historical conjunction with the black celebrity photos, as well as with much of the literature Van Vechten himself wrote prior to 1932, exemplify an attempt to satisfy and to resolve a conflicted need to legitimate his negrophilic sympathies publicly and to satisfy his homoerotic desires privately, while laying claim to an "enlightened" engagement in contemporary notio0ns of the primitive and, therefore, in the modern.

   • 2013, Kevin J. Hayes, Edgar Allan Poe in Context (Literature in Context)‎^[2], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:

     Poe condemned Poems on Slavery as “intended for the especial use of those negrophilic old ladies of the north” who were so cozy with Longfellow and William Ellery Channing, leader of the Unitarian church, to whom the volume was dedicated.

   • 2022 May 5, Brigid Cohen, Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes (New Material Histories of Music)‎^[3], University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61:

     […] ; by the notion that jazz provided otherwise inaccessible timbral resources, in keeping with Varèse's words about Charlie Parker; and by a negrophilic conflation of diverse African diasporic traditions, which dovetailed with Varèse's long-standing attraction both to Latin American sounds and to the trope of the New World “noble savage.

See also

• Afrophilic