negrolatry

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English

Etymology

From negro +‎ -latry.

Noun

negrolatry (uncountable)

  1. (now offensive, rare) Excessive admiration and respect for people of African descent.
    • 1862, Russell, Times,
      The Conservative masses, which lie between negrolatry or nigger-worship and Secession.
    • 1937, Lowell Joseph Ragatz, “Review of: William Law Matheison, The Sugar Colonies and Governor Eyre, 1849–1866, New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1936”, in The American Historical Review‎, volume 42, number 4, page 824:
      Many readers will go further and hail him as an unfortunate victim of negrophilism and negrolatry among ignorant sentimentalists and professional busybodies in the home country
    • 1949, René Maunier, The Sociology of the Colonies (Part 1): An Introduction to the Study of Race Contact‎, Taylor and Francis, →ISBN, page 59:
      Negrophilia, negromania, negrolatry ended in due course by infecting the Negroes themselves.

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