Definition of "blackwashing"

If Pindell opposes the 'whitewashing' of history, then Walker's is a revisionist blackwashing.

2008, Celeste-Marie Bernier, African American Visual Arts, page 215

This “blackwashing,” in Hare's opinion, was the work of black studies departments and the black faculty […]

2013, Jonathan Scott Holloway, Jim Crow Wisdom, page 118

The blackwashing is here to be the very last operation, and to be well performed, and when dry must be polished by a large sleeker fitting the circle of the cylinder.

1852, Frederick Overman, The Moulder's and Founder's Pocket Guide, page 120

Historical writing proliferates in examples of tendentious accounts of national history, where the “whitewashing” of one history goes hand in hand with the “blackwashing” of another.

2007, Robert Stam, Ella Shohat, Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism, page 12