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Pickaninny (also picaninny, piccaninny or pickininnie) is a pidgin word for a small child, possibly derived from the Portuguese pequenino ('boy, child, very small, tiny'). [1] It has been used as a racial slur for African American children and a pejorative term for Aboriginal children of the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand.
Pickaninny: An enslaved child. Prime age : Enslaved individuals between the ages of 15 and 25, considered the peak years for purchasing long-term productivity and fertility. [ 17 ]
The term pickaninny, reserved for children, has a similarly broadened pattern of use in popular American theater and media. It originated from the Spanish term “pequeño niño” and the Portuguese term “pequenino” to describe small child in general, but it was applied especially to African-American children in the United States and later ...
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Pickaninny, also spelled picaninny, piccaninnie, piccaninny, and pickaninnie, is a derogatory term for a black child. It may also refer to: Piccaninny crater, impact structure in Western Australia; Pickaninny Buttes, summit in California; Piccaninny tribe, fictional Native American tribe in the children's novel Peter and Wendy
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The article opens: Pickaninny (also pickaninny, pickaninny or pickaninny) is a word ... I don't know what the intended list of alternate forms should contain. Perhaps an editor has fallen afoul of some kind of spell-check or auto-correction. 122.148.227.2 10:43, 3 November 2020 (UTC) Seems fine to me.
The alligator bait image is a subtype of the racist pickaninny caricature and stereotype of black children, where they were represented as almost unhuman, filthy, unlovable, [5] unkempt, [6] "unsupervised and dispensible." [7] In 19th and 20th century American popular media, stereotyped depictions of black children were common: