Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colorphobia

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The result of the debate was delete. ugen64 03:39, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Colorphobia

Substub, information obvious from title. Delete or redirect to list of phobias. Neutrality^talk 17:46, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Some specific color phobias are listed in list of phobias, so there is no need to have a generalized article such as this. тəzєті 17:53, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Created to make a point at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Afrophobia. 4.249.147.199 created Wiktionary:colorphobia at the same time that Nazikiwe created this article. Redirect to afrophobia if that survives. Delete if it does not. Uncle G 02:22, 2005 Apr 4 (UTC)
  • Afrophobia has survived. --Da Stressor 14:49, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, under the bar of notability. Megan1967 06:54, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, rubbish - David Gerard 09:55, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep This article was created because of the historical relationship my research has revealed between the terms colorphobia, negrophobia and afrophobia. My research also indicates that another term that you may probably want to VfD is pigmentocracy. Thank you for all your input.--Nazikiwe 21:57, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • In other words, self-admitted original research. Delete. Radiant_* 12:40, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
    • The books listed in the bibliography for this article are searchable on Amazon.com for those who are interested in seeing the historical facts. The term colorphobia originated in a novel written in 1857. While researching something totally (so I thought) unrelated I came across it in a book written by Frederick Douglass where he noted the peculiar behavior of one of the subscribers to William Lloyd Garrison's "The Liberator". Mention of it is also in Frederick Douglass The Colored Orator: Holland, Frederic May, 1836-1908. To wit: "But on every steamboat, in every omnibus, railroad car, where Douglass was tabood, solely because of color, there was Wendell Phillips ready to take his seat beside his 'despised and rejected' brother, vastly to the annoyance of conductors and agents, who couldn't help feeling the scandal and disgrace of the miserable colorphobia, so pointedly rebuked." Basically, this term was in wide use during the nineteenth century and common knowledge of it makes it worthy of an article signifying that it as notable. Colorphobia is not a dicdef it is a scientific phenomenon. An empirical statistical analysis of the facts will bear that statement out. A google search will probably produce the same level of trivia as would a search for afrophobia on google. However, a search for "colorphobia and douglass" or "colorphobia and grimke" or "colorphobia and garrison" will produce results demonstrative of the substantial facts supporting the article. I welcome the challenge this VfD represents. Any attempt to repudiate the facts presented as to the historical nature of the term colorphobia will only reveal further support for this article.

--Nazikiwe 14:35, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Dictionary def, no sources. -Willmcw 21:58, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. The article has been expanded and sourced. -Willmcw 16:26, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Wiktionary's already got it. --Carnildo 03:31, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• 94 non-duplicative google hits for this term, many of them using the term in quotes. The fact that you can find a few old references using this term does not mean that the word ever got out of the neologistic stage. Wikitionary takes neologisms. Leave it there, not here. Rossami (talk) 04:09, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• weak Keep - Historically warranted, although obscure. But atrocious English etymology. Urhixidur 14:30, 2005 Apr 8 (UTC)

Bibliography for colorphobia

• Colorphobia: An exposure of the 'White Australia' fallacy by Edward William Foxall
• The American Bible Society and colorphobia by Francis J Grimke
• How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
• The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip
• Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W. E. B. Du Bois, David Levering Lewis
• Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill
• The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (African American History (Paperback)) by David L. Lewis (Editor), David Levering Lewis (Editor)
• Major Taylor: The Extraordinary Career of a Champion Bicycle Racer by Andrew Ritchie
• Interracial Intimacies : Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption by RANDALL KENNEDY
• Philadelphia: A 300-Year History by Russell Weigley
• A History of American Literature by Richard Gray
• William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald H. Grimke (available on Project Gutenberg with an entire chapter entitled [colorphobia]) [gutenberg.org]

--Da Stressor 21:57, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Delete original research, dicdef, sounds like afrophobia or racism anyway. --InShaneee 16:20, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to afrophobia or negrophobia, especially since the sources seem to primarily involve African-Americans, and mostly in the U.S. Unless someone can come up with a major expansion of this article (including sources) about "colorphobia" applied to other "people of color"; Asians, Native Americans, Indians, etc. etc. etc. Soundguy99 18:20, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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