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Niggerhead. Nigger Head Tobacco trading cards from the United States featuring racist stereotype caricatures of African Americans; late 19th century. " Niggerhead " or " nigger head " is a term that has been used in English-speaking countries with things associated with the head of a black person. [1][2] Like the word "nigger", the name is now ...
Discrimination. Discrimination against people with red hair is the prejudice, stereotyping and dehumanization of people with naturally red hair, which is the result of a genetic mutation. In contemporary form, it often involves a cultural discrimination against people with red hair. A number of stereotypes exist about people with red hair, many ...
White trash is a derogatory term in American English for poor white people, especially in the rural areas of the southern United States. The label signifies a social class inside the white population and especially a degraded standard of living. [1] It is used as a way to separate the "noble and hardworking" "good poor" from the lazy ...
Sambo (racial term) Sambo is a derogatory label for a person of African descent in the Spanish language. Historically, it is a name in American English derived from a Spanish term for a person of African and Native American ancestry. After the Civil War, during and after the Jim Crow era the term was used in conversation, print advertising and ...
Cracker (term) Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial slur directed towards white people, [1][2][3] used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States. [4] Although commonly a pejorative, it is also used in a neutral context, particularly in reference to a native of Florida or Georgia (see Florida ...
Gook (/ ˈɡuːk / or / ˈɡʊk /) is a derogatory term for people of East and Southeast Asian descent. [1] Its origin is unclear, but it may have originated among U.S. Marines during the Philippine–American War (1899–1913). [2][3] Historically, U.S. military personnel used the word “to refer to any dark-skinned foreigner, especially a ...
Peckerwood is a term for a woodpecker which is used in the Southern United States and it is also used as a racial epithet for white people, especially poor rural whites. [2] Originally an ethnic slur, the term has been embraced by a subculture related to prison gangs and outlaw motorcycle clubs. [3][4][5][6] The term was in use as an inversion ...
v. t. e. The English word squaw is an ethnic and sexual slur, [1][2][3][4] historically used for Indigenous North American women. [1][5] Contemporary use of the term, especially by non-Natives, is considered derogatory, misogynist, and racist. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] While squaw (or a close variant) is found in several Eastern and Central ...