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"text": "Coordinate term: blacklash"
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"ref": "1970 January 2, John H. Britton, “Into age of sick seventies”, in Jet magazine, page 7",
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"ref": "1996, “'The Lash', 1977”, in Classroom Activities on Wisconsin Indian Treaties and Tribal Sovereignty, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, page 266",
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"ref": "2000, David Myles Jones, A \"new Breed\" of Black Consciousness: Re-reading Gender, Ideology, and Generational Change in Neo-black Literature and Criticism, 1965-1975, Volume 2, University of Minnesota, →OCLC, page 406",
"text": "for more on 'whitelash' reactions to militant black writing.",
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"ref": "2001, Fiona Mackay, Love and Politics: Women Politicians and the Ethics of Care, Continuum, page 75; n. 3.",
"text": "There has been a particularly acute white backlash or 'whitelash' in the United States against affirmative action programmes which promote women and black men.",
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"ref": "2010, William Hairston, Suburban-Ghetto: A Novel, page 56",
"text": "See how the white-lash gave Blacks and Latinos the blues! No way to claim investment profits shareholders lose!",
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"ref": "2016, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Building a Multiracial Movement in the Trump Era”, in Anand Gopal, Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Owen Jones, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, editors, The Anti-Inauguration: Building resistance in the Trump era, Haymarket Books",
"text": "The best example of this is when CNN's Van Jones characterized Trump's election as revenge, or a 'whitelash,' against black voters, who overwhelmingly voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012.",
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"ref": "2017, George Yancy, On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis, Oxford University Press, page 7",
"text": "My sense is that even Obama didn't see Trump coming; he didn't see the full extent of the whitelash. And it is that whitelash, the likes of which we have yet to see fully, that drives home the fierce urgency of now.",
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"ref": "2018, Miguel A. De La Torre, “Chapter 11: Deporter-in-Chief: Why Reject Christian Hospitality?”, in Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, Anthony B. Pinn, editors, Religion in the Age of Obama, Bloomsbury Academic",
"text": "And while many accomplishments exist for celebrating during the Obama years, specifically in the midst of a Trump whitelash, Obama's immigration policies have been devastating to migrants south of the border",
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},
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"text": "And while many accomplishments exist for celebrating during the Obama years, specifically in the midst of a Trump whitelash, Obama's immigration policies have been devastating to migrants south of the border",
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