Black shame is a term used to describe how people of black African descent view themselves among societies in which they are a minority and feel oppressed. It results in psychological contemptuousness and denial about one's "blackness", and is worsened by a feeling that black people are responsible for a disproportionate amount of the crime in the country the person is in.

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  • Black shame is a term used to describe how people of black African descent view themselves among societies in which they are a minority and feel oppressed. It results in psychological contemptuousness and denial about one's "blackness", and is worsened by a feeling that black people are responsible for a disproportionate amount of the crime in the country the person is in. When written as Black Shame, the term may refer to the English translation of the German Schwarze Schande, which is how German propaganda referred to the French deployment of African soldiers. The term was coined during the Second Moroccan crisis of 1911 but was most associated with the Allied occupation of the Rhineland (1918-30).
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  • April 2008
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  • Black shame is a term used to describe how people of black African descent view themselves among societies in which they are a minority and feel oppressed. It results in psychological contemptuousness and denial about one's "blackness", and is worsened by a feeling that black people are responsible for a disproportionate amount of the crime in the country the person is in.
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  • Black shame
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