Black Nationalism

American  

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. a social and political movement resisting assimilation of Black people into white or mixed society and advocating self-reliance and self-government in Black communities.

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Other Word Forms

• Black Nationalist noun

Etymology

Origin of Black Nationalism

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

In later decades, self-sufficiency was touted by the Nation of Islam as part of its advocacy of Black Nationalism.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2023

"Killmonger seems to embody the tradition of Black Nationalism and revolutionary politics," Professor Saladin Ambar of Rutgers University told Salon shortly after the film's release last year.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2019

Simone was a militant, an advocate of Black Nationalism who once repudiated the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence to his face.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2016

Stokely Carmichael later recalled that Malcolm X had provided an intellectual basis for Black Nationalism and given legitimacy to the use of violence in achieving the goals of Black Power.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

We had met in the United States as he had researched the Nation of Islam for his book, Black Nationalism.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey