"blackwashing" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2008, Celeste-Marie Bernier, African American Visual Arts, page 215:",
          "text": "If Pindell opposes the 'whitewashing' of history, then Walker's is a revisionist blackwashing.",
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        "(derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people."
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