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blackademic en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *blakaz Proto-West Germanic *blak Old English blæc Middle English blak English black Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Proto-Hellenic *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der. Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă) Ancient Greek -εια (-eia) Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia) ▲ Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós)der. Medieval Latin acadēmicusder. ▲ Latin acadēmicusbor. French académiqueder. English academic blend English blackademic Blend of black + academic.

Meanings

1. (alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of Blackademic.
   alt of Blackademic
   • Nick wasn’t what he’d had in mind for Billie. He’d planned on a blackademic just like himself. Herbert was the son of teachers who had instilled their deep love of education into him. 2009, Carleen Brice, Children of the Waters, One World Books, →ISBN, page 44:
   • It’s about an untenured black professor, a “blackademic,” obsessed with Edgar Allen^([sic]) Poe’s novel “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” and the possibility of finding a remote island of pure blackness—the last bastion of the African diaspora—in Antarctica. 2012 March 4, “He’s reading at Writers House”, in Sunday News, 89 years, number 25, page E4:
   • My uncle, Kevin Gaines, first demonstrated what being a blackademic meant. He wrote aspirational scholarship, introduced me to his colleagues, read and graciously critiqued my work, and answered all my questions about the professoriate. 2017, Alisha Gaines, “Acknowledgments”, in Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page xiii:

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