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Negrophile

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Ne·gro·phile  (ngr-fl)
n.
One who admires and supports Black people and their culture.
negro·philism (ngr-flzm, n-grf-) n.
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This assessment of blackness is the reason that would-be Negrophiles of the 1920s were not content to allow African Americans to express their collective artistic temperament and love of life through jazz and the literature of the Harlem school: these whites took to writing novels and plays of their own to emphasize that blacks were basically exotic primitives, out of place in white society because of their natural spontaneity, emotionalism, and sensuality (327).
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In high school the all-American cheerleader, fashion plate, homecoming queen, blonde bombshell, and Olympic-class figure skater, she grows into a jazz singer, all-'round Negrophile, and devoted connoisseur of the black male body.
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