blackademic

Blend of black +‎ academic.

blackademic (plural blackademics)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Blackademic.
   • 2009, Carleen Brice, Children of the Waters, One World Books, →ISBN, page 44:

     Nick wasn’t what he’d had in mind for Billie. He’d planned on a blackademic just like himself. Herbert was the son of teachers who had instilled their deep love of education into him.

   • 2012 March 4, “He’s reading at Writers House”, in Sunday News, 89 years, number 25, page E4:

     It’s about an untenured black professor, a “blackademic,” obsessed with Edgar Allen^[sic] Poe’s novel “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” and the possibility of finding a remote island of pure blackness—the last bastion of the African diaspora—in Antarctica.

   • 2017, Alisha Gaines, “Acknowledgments”, in Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page xiii:

     My uncle, Kevin Gaines, first demonstrated what being a blackademic meant. He wrote aspirational scholarship, introduced me to his colleagues, read and graciously critiqued my work, and answered all my questions about the professoriate.