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Meaning of "Uncle Tomism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNCLE TOMISM

Uncle Tomism  [ˈʌŋkəl ˈtɒmɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNCLE TOMISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Uncle Tomism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UNCLE TOMISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of Uncle Tomism in the English dictionary

The definition of Uncle Tomism in the dictionary is the condition of being obsequious and servile towards White people.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNCLE TOMISM


academism
əˈkædəˌmɪzəm
alarmism
əˈlɑːmɪzəm
animism
ˈænɪˌmɪzəm
atomism
ˈætəˌmɪzəm
conformism
kənˈfɔːmɪzəm
dynamism
ˈdaɪnəˌmɪzəm
economism
ɪˈkɒnəˌmɪzəm
endemism
ˈɛndəmɪzəm
euphemism
ˈjuːfɪˌmɪzəm
extremism
ɪkˈstriːmɪzəm
momism
ˈmɒmɪzəm
nonconformism
ˌnɒnkənˈfɔːmɪzəm
optimism
ˈɒptɪˌmɪzəm
Pan-Islamism
pænˈɪzləmɪzəm
panspermism
pænˈspɜːmɪzəm
pessimism
ˈpɛsɪˌmɪzəm
photochromism
ˌfəʊtəʊˈkrəʊmɪzəm
reformism
rɪˈfɔːmɪzəm
Thomism
ˈtəʊmɪzəm
totemism
ˈtəʊtəˌmɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNCLE TOMISM

Uncle Sam
Uncle Tom

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNCLE TOMISM

bathmism
bedlamism
bromism
chemism
cosmism
dysphemism
Humism
Islamism
legitimism
logical atomism
Moslemism
Muslimism
nomism
opiumism
overoptimism
pancosmism
seismism
short-termism
thermochromism
transformism

Synonyms and antonyms of Uncle Tomism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Uncle Tomism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNCLE TOMISM

Find out the translation of Uncle Tomism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Uncle Tomism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Uncle Tomism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Tomism大叔
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tío Tomism
570 millions of speakers

English

Uncle Tomism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चाचा Tomism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عم Tomism
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Дядя Tomism
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tio Tomism
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চাচা টমিসম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

oncle Tomism
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Uncle Tomism
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Onkel Tomism
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

おじさんTomism
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

삼촌 Tomism
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Paman Tomism
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chú Tomism
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாமா தோற்றம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अंकल Tomism
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tomism Amca
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

zio Tomism
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wujek Tomism
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Дядя Tomism
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

unchiul Tomism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θείος Tomism
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oom Tomism
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Uncle Tomism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

onkel Tomism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Uncle Tomism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNCLE TOMISM»

The term «Uncle Tomism» is barely ever used and occupies the 210.792 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNCLE TOMISM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Uncle Tomism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNCLE TOMISM»

Discover the use of Uncle Tomism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Uncle Tomism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Hits at American Whims and Hints for Home Use
contests in Uncle-Tomism. In that particular, we take pride in saying that our peculiar institution is already enlisting the attention of British philanthropists to such an extent that we do not despair of soon running neck and neck with yours over ...
Frederic William Sawyer, 1860
2
Cold Blood
Antipodal, perjurious, inchoate, bovine, intrusive, termagant, and erroneous Big Brotherism castrated WASPish Uncle Tomism, drowning WASPs in Uncle Tom's Big Brotherism, an offrciously bigoted sickle cell anemia, which blacks paid for, ...
Willis Bryant, 2012
3
Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social and Literary ...
On the mythic and rhetorical level, black Americans have rejected Uncle Tomism as a mode of self-perception. No black person wants to be called an Uncle Tom. On the programmatic level, however, all black leaders and movements have ...
Wilson Jeremiah Moses, 2010
4
Shaking Wolves Out of Cherry Trees: And 149 Other Sermon Ideas
Uncle Tomism is not confined to an ethnic thing. The connotation we unfortunately attribute to Uncle Tom is that of a person who is not willing to stand up and be counted. It connotes one who says all the things we want to hear and not what we ...
Terry Cain, 2002
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The Crisis
I, therefore, propose to call this inverted racism white Uncle Tomism: for it places the white liberal, or radical suffering under his burden of guilts, in the same, though inverted, category as that of the black Uncle Tom. This white Uncle Tom is  ...
6
Aesthetics of Resistance: Charles Mingus and the Civil ...
The concept of Uncle Tomism was derived from the main character Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Whereas Stowe had intended Tom as a Christian martyr whose story was patterned after the life of Jesus ...
Mario Dunkel, 2012
7
Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black ...
Uncle Tomism, 258; views on liberal blacks, 220 Thomas-Hill hearings, 211 Till, Emmett, 196 Tillman, George, Jr., 285n1 Time magazine, 81–82 Titel, Robert, 285n1 Tom Joyner Foundation, 241, 285n28 Tom Joyner Morning Show, 237–45 ; ...
Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell, 2010
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The Westminster Review
... scintillating wit and wisdom on the wide range of topics passed in review. Fiction. Slave tales continue to be the literary staple among the products of the American press. Uncle-Tomism has had its day ; and now comes anti-Uncle- Tomism.
‎1853
9
The Foreign Quarterly Review
Fiction. Slave tales continue to be the literary staple among the products of the American press. Uncle-Tomism has had its day; and now comes anti-Uncle- Tomism. There are two sides to every story: and most assuredly, in fiction, at least , there ...
‎1853
10
Stealth Reconstruction: An Untold Story of Racial Politics ...
So i want to throw a hardball your way. would you describe your relationship with white officials—like George wallace—as “Uncle tomism”? Joe Reed: For those who label this relationship as me playing the role of an Uncle tom, i would say, ...
Glen Browder, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNCLE TOMISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Uncle Tomism is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Revisited queer cinema: The Boys In The Band by William Friedklin …
By the time this film was released in March 1970, Gay Liberation was in full swing and a handful of individuals thought it held too tightly to Uncle Tomism and ... «Examiner.com, Mar 15»
2
Review: A Family Seeks Its True Colors on black-ish
and on the other hand, black commentators who accused the show of ignoring social issues or even Uncle Tomism. It's not that race was irrelevant to The Cosby ... «TIME, Sep 14»
3
Van Jones and Charles Blow Absolve White America
But of course the usual suspects of chicanery and modern day Uncle Tomism are in the media fray too. A black reporter for the New York Times, John Eligon, felt ... «Truth-Out, Aug 14»
4
Satchmo at the Waldorf
It turns out that Armstrong, while savvy to the racial tensions around him, was easily hurt by Davis' and others' charges of Uncle Tomism, though when it came to ... «TheaterMania.com, Mar 14»
5
On sexism in sports, the last acceptable prejudice
... the women just as much as they do the men" -- a blithe Uncle Tomism that accepts being demeaned on the basis of gender as the price of admission to a male ... «SB Nation, Apr 13»
6
Bristling Dixie
As Sperb puts it: “Not only is Song of the South a movie derogatory because of its 'Uncle Tomism,' it was made by people who were well aware of the stereotype, ... «Slate Magazine, Jan 13»
7
Driving M Philippe
... we have many more comedies like Welcome to the Sticks, France's previous top-grosser) and The Intouchables has already been charged with Uncle Tomism ... «Santa Fe Reporter, Jun 12»
8
Variations on an Explosive Theme
It was widely scorned among the African-American intelligentsia, who viewed it as an example of Uncle Tomism. And, if it provided steady work for black actors ... «New York Times, Jan 12»
9
When Did We All Turn Blond?
There was a time the fake blond syndrome among non-whites was a no-no, seen as a sign of Uncle Tomism and colonial mentality. But now it's apparently ... «New America Media, Aug 10»
10
The Americanization of British Politics
In fairness to our accusers, the accused rarely acquits himself well in such situations, preferring to grumble some Uncle Tomism about how he would sew a ... «Reason Online, Apr 10»

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« EDUCALINGO. Uncle Tomism [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/uncle-tomism>. Apr 2024 ».
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