Black shame is a term used to describe how some people of African descent view themselves among societies in which they are a minority and feel oppressed. It results in psychological contemptuousness and denial about one's "blackness", and is worsened by a feeling that black people are responsible for a disproportionate amount of the crime in the country the person is in.

When written as Black Shame, the term may refer to the English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 translation of the German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 Schwarze Schande, which is how German propaganda

Propaganda

Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself or one's group....

 referred to the French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 deployment of African soldiers. The term was coined during the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911, but was most associated with the Allied occupation of the Rhineland

Rhineland

Historically, the Rhinelands refers to a loosely-defined region embracing the land on either bank of the River Rhine in central Europe....

(1918-30).