Negrobilia en · NOUN
Etymology
Blend of negro + memorabilia.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Collectibles that portray stereotypes of black people.
As new production dwindled, and many people threw away the old stuff, what was left came to be seen as rare, antique and collectible. A lively aftermarket for Negrobilia and Black Americana developed in the 1980s.
2007, John Strausbaugh, Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture, →ISBN:Ms. Giovanni, who majored in history at Fisk University in Nashville, says this in a big room full of Negrobilia, including sculptures of three black boys eating watermelon and of a black man driving a white man in a buggy.
1996, The New York Times Biographical Service - Volume 27, page 1128:Inside, it was covered in Negrobilia, advertising signs from the first half of the century that featured big-lipped Sambos.
1998, Christopher John Farley, My Favorite War: A Novel, →ISBN, page 246: