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black buck

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Noun1.black buckblack buck - common Indian antelope with a dark back and spiral horns
Antilope cervicapra, blackbuck
antelope - graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
Antilope, genus Antilope - blackbucks


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In a study of the stereotypes of African Americans in film, Donald Bogle notes that the character of the black buck or black brute appears in D.
"It ain't your color, it's your scabbing": literary depictions of ... by Noon, Mark / African American Review
Perhaps most disturbingly, the practice of lynching was intertwined with the mythology of the sex-craved black buck, the equally mythological virginal white woman, and the fear of the cataclysm that would ensue should the two so much as exchange eye contact.
At The Hands Of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America. ... by Coates, Ta-Nehisi / Washington Monthly
Bill describes himself as an "old black buck sergeant" who served on Gaudalcanal during World War II in the 93rd Division, an all African-American unit.
AS ONE MAN SITS OUT ANTHEM, LOCAL VETS STAND FAST by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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