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Afristocracy en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of African + aristocracy.

Meanings

1. (informal) Wealthy and/or elite black people collectively.
   • At 36 Luhabe epitomises the new Afristocracy. She grew up in one of the troubled townships to the east of the city at a time when white rule seemed destined to last for ever. The only way a girl like her might have come to live in an expensive white suburb would have been as a maid. 1994 March 27, Richard Ellis, “Afristocracy”, in The Sunday Times Magazine, page 29:
   • The Afristocracy — the new Jews — are out in force at the Pyramid this evening. Directly across from Harrell's corner booth is a long table dominated by Wesley Snipes. He is surrounded by five beautiful women, and Jasmine Guy (A Different World) is whispering in his ear. Martin Lawrence has a table across the way, and Keenen Ivory Wayans, the creator of In Living Color, is tucked into another corner. 1993 September 14, Lynn Hirschberg, “Living Large”, in Vanity Fair, volume 56, number 9, page 191:
   • Michael Eric Dyson distinguishes two classes of Black Americans today: the Afristocracy versus the Ghettocracy. The Afristocracy is the “upper-middle class blacks and the black elite who rain down fire and brimstone upon poor blacks[…] 2010 August 21, Daniel White Hodge, The Soul of Hip Hop: Rims, Timbs and a Cultural Theology, InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 58:

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