non-Black

adjective

ˌnän-ˈblak 

variants or less commonly non-black or nonblack

: not of or relating to African American people or their culture

attended predominantly non-Black schools

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a gifted Black artist deeply immersed in a non-Black world.

—Joy Sewing

When Motown first packaged up a roster of artists and songs that could be embraced by a non-black audience, no new act … crossed over into the bosom of Middle America as easefully as the Supremes.

—Jasper Rees

Examples of non-Black in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Additionally, Black women are more likely to die from breast and uterine cancers than non-Black women — and Black men have the highest cancer rates of any American demographic. —Marcos Magaña, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for non-Black

• aback
• anzac
• attack
• backpack
• backtrack
• bareback
• blackjack
• brownback
• buyback
• callback
• cognac
• comeback