political blackness

political blackness (uncountable)

1. The use of the word black as an umbrella term to refer to all non-white people, with the aim of increased solidarity among people likely to experience discrimination based on skin color.
   • 2023, Colm Murphy, Futures of Socialism, page 173:

     […] criticism of political blackness emerged from the 'Bristol school of multiculturalism'. A particularly robust critic was the sociologist Tariq Modood, who argued that the blanket term black 'harmed British Asians' by eliding their specific experiences and downplaying their own cultural inheritances.

• political lesbianism

• POC, of color