Afristocracy

English Etymology en African aristocracy. Noun en informal Wealthy and/or elite black people collectively. en 1993-09 Lynn Hirschberg Living Large Vanity Fair https://archive.org/details/vanityfair56sepnewy/page/n197/mode/2up?q=%22afristocracy%22 56 9 191 The Afristocracy — the new Jews — are out in force at the Pyramid this evening. Directly across from Harrell's corner booth is a long table dominated by Wesley Snipes. He is surrounded by five beautiful women, and Jasmine Guy (A Different World) is whispering in his ear. Martin Lawrence has a table across the way, and Keenen Ivory Wayans, the creator of In Living Color, is tucked into another corner. en 1994-03-27 Richard Ellis Afristocracy The Sunday Times Magazine https://archive.org/details/TheNewSouthAfricaWillItWork/page/n27/mode/2up?q=%22afristocracy%22 29 At 36 Luhabe epitomises the new Afristocracy. She grew up in one of the troubled townships to the east of the city at a time when white rule seemed destined to last for ever. The only way a girl like her might have come to live in an expensive white suburb would have been as a maid. en 2010-08-21 Daniel White Hodge The Soul of Hip Hop: Rims, Timbs and a Cultural Theology InterVarsity Press 9780830861286 58 Michael Eric Dyson distinguishes two classes of Black Americans today: the Afristocracy versus the Ghettocracy. The Afristocracy is the “upper-middle class blacks and the black elite who rain down fire and brimstone upon poor blacks en Related terms en Afristocrat