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Definition of Black race
1. Noun. A dark-skinned race.
Generic synonyms: Race
Member holonyms: Black, Black Person, Blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Race
Literary usage of Black race
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"A HERO OF THE Black race. [Lecture delivered in New York and Boston, December,
1861.—From the Same.] SOME doubt the courage of the negro. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... or black race are: excessive length of the legs; total height 7 to 7'5 heads;
skin from dark brown almost to black; the hair of the head thick, black, ..."
3. Complete Geography by Alex Everett Frye (1895)
"The Negro or Black race. In what part of Africa do people of the black race live?
See map on page 102. What large river basins are in this region ? ..."
4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"A HERO OF THE Black race. [Lecture delivered in New York and Boston, December,
1861.—From the Same.] SOME doubt the courage of the negro. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... or black race are: excessive length of the legs; total height 7 to 7'5 heads;
skin from dark brown almost to black; the hair of the head thick, black, ..."
6. Complete Geography by Alex Everett Frye (1895)
"The Negro or Black race. In what part of Africa do people of the black race live?
See map on page 102. What large river basins are in this region ? ..."