white backlash

1. 1.

   backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances

   Synonymswhitelash

   Broaderbacklash

Questions about white backlash

What does white backlash mean?

white backlash means "backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances".

What is another word for white backlash?

Close synonyms include whitelash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is white backlash a common word?

white backlash is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.