Yankeemiento
The cultural and psychological process through which Black Great Migration descendants distance themselves from their Southern ancestral heritage, characterized by Great Migration descendants treating Southern Blackness and Southern-derived traditions as backward, pathological, uncultured, or inferior, while viewing the regional norms and identities of the areas to which their ancestors migrated as superior.
He’s so deep into Yankeemiento that he looks down on Southern Black culture, even though his grandparents were born and raised in the South. It’s interesting how accepting and respectful they are of other cultures until it’s Black Southerners.
Yankeemiento by Offensive Neologist August 20, 2026
