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a term for a black person, originated in the U.S. in the 1950s. [43] Spade a term for a black person, [44] first recorded in 1928, [45] from the playing cards suit. Spook a black person. Tar baby (US) a black person, especially a child. [46] Tea bag (South Africa) black or Coloured or Cape Coloured individuals who have a light skin [47] Teapot
Pages in category "Anti-African and anti-black slurs" ... Hottentot (racial term) House slave; J. Jim Crow (character) K. Kaffir (racial term) M. Macaca (term) Monkey ...
Slave trade in Africa has also caused disruption of political systems. To elaborate on the disruption of political systems caused by slavery in Africa, the capture and sale of millions of Africans to the Americas and elsewhere resulted in the loss of many skilled and talented individuals who played important roles in African societies. [176]
Apartheid (Afrikaans pronunciation: Afrikaans pronunciation: [aˈpartɦɛit]; an Afrikaans word meaning "separateness", or "the state of being apart", literally "apart-hood") was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation by the National Party (NP), the governing party from 1948 to 1994. Under apartheid, the ...
Slavery in the Sahel region (and to a lesser extent the Horn of Africa) exists along the racial and cultural boundary of Arabized Berbers in the north and darker Africans in the south. [8] Slavery in the Sahel states of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan in particular, continues a centuries-old pattern of hereditary servitude. [9]
Among Hassaniya Arabic speakers in southern Morocco and Mauritania, states Sean Hanretta – a professor of African History, the term Bidan is a "caste synecdoche" that refers to Hassani (warrior) and Zwaya (clerical) clans. In the slave castes, they recognized two layers, the `Abid (slaves) and Haratins (freed slaves). [60]
African American Vernacular English, or Black American English, is one of America's greatest sources of linguistic creativity, and Black Twitter especially has played a pivotal role in how words ...
Anti-Black racism was a term first used by Canadian scholar Dr. Akua Benjamin in a 1992 report on Ontario race relations. It is defined as follows: Anti-Black racism is a specific manifestation of racism rooted in European colonialism, slavery and oppression of Black people since the sixteenth century.