negrolatry

English

Etymology

From negro +‎ -latry.

Noun

negrolatry (uncountable)

1. (now offensive, rare) Excessive admiration and respect for people of African descent.
   • 1862, Russell, Times, ^[1]

     The Conservative masses, which lie between negrolatry or nigger-worship and Secession.

   • 1937, Lowell Joseph Ragatz, “Review of: William Law Matheison, The Sugar Colonies and Governor Eyre, 1849–1866, New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1936”, in The American Historical Review‎^[2], volume 42, number 4, page 824:

     Many readers will go further and hail him as an unfortunate victim of negrophilism and negrolatry among ignorant sentimentalists and professional busybodies in the home country

   • 1949, René Maunier, The Sociology of the Colonies (Part 1): An Introduction to the Study of Race Contact‎^[3], Taylor and Francis, →ISBN, page 59:

     Negrophilia, negromania, negrolatry ended in due course by infecting the Negroes themselves.

Related terms

• negrophilism
• negrophilia

Translations

worship of Negroes (offensive)

• French: négrolatrie f