colour-proud

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See also: colour proud

English

Adjective

colour-proud (comparative more colour-proud, superlative most colour-proud)

  1. Favouring people of one's own skin colour over others; racist, racially prejudiced.
    • 1924, Cherry Kearton, The Shifting Sands of Algeria‎, London: Arrowsmith:
      To the Frenchman, of course, black and white are both alike. He is not so colour-proud as we are. And an Algerian negro is a fully-fledged French citizen.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia‎, page 132:
      Lace had at the back of his mind a desire to go combo. He had had it ever since he came in contact with the comely lubras of the district. But at first it had been kept in check by what he called his Sense of Decency. Not that he was a prude. Apparently he was only colour-proud.
    • 2007, Lena Crabbe in Sally Morgan, Tjalaminu Mia and Blaze Kwaymullina (eds), Speaking from the Heart: Stories of Life, Family and Country, North Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, p. 36,
      His parents were colour proud and they didn't want him knocking around with Nyungars

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