Definition of Black race

1. Noun. A dark-skinned race.

Exact synonyms: Negro Race, Negroid Race
Generic synonyms: Race
Member holonyms: Black, Black Person, Blackamoor, Negro, Negroid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Race

Black Russia
Black Russian
Black Russians
Black Sea
Black September
Black September Movement
Black Tai
Black Thursday
Black Tuesday
Black and Decker
Black and Deckers
Black and Tan
Black and Tans
Black man
Black person
Black race (current term)
Black woman
Blackacre
Blackadder
Blackamoor
Blackbeard
Blackburn
Blackfeet
Blackfoot
Blackfriar
Blackpool
Blackpudlian
Blackpudlians
Blacks
Blacksburg

Literary usage of Black race

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"A HERO OF THE Black race. [Lecture delivered in New York and Boston, December, 1861.—From the Same.] SOME doubt the courage of the negro. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... or black race are: excessive length of the legs; total height 7 to 7'5 heads; skin from dark brown almost to black; the hair of the head thick, black, ..."

3. Complete Geography by Alex Everett Frye (1895)
"The Negro or Black race. In what part of Africa do people of the black race live? See map on page 102. What large river basins are in this region ? ..."

4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"A HERO OF THE Black race. [Lecture delivered in New York and Boston, December, 1861.—From the Same.] SOME doubt the courage of the negro. ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... or black race are: excessive length of the legs; total height 7 to 7'5 heads; skin from dark brown almost to black; the hair of the head thick, black, ..."

6. Complete Geography by Alex Everett Frye (1895)
"The Negro or Black race. In what part of Africa do people of the black race live? See map on page 102. What large river basins are in this region ? ..."

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