postblack en · ADJ
Etymology
From post- + black; coined in the late 1990s.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or relating to a paradoxical form of black racial identity that rejects the notion that race matters.
It is impossible to understand the role of race in Barack Obama's candidacy without examining the idea of “postblack” or “postracial” politics and the evolution of African American politics.
2009, M. Marable, Kristen Clarke, Barack Obama and African American Empowerment: The Rise of Black America's New Leadership, Springer, →ISBN, page 165: