black and tan adj.
(US)1. referring to the mixing of blacks and whites, e.g. a nightclub.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Waynesburg Republican (PA) 25 Dec. 2/2: The subject on which the democrat organs harp most feelingly are the ‘black-and-tan’ conventions. | |
| White Cloud Kansas Chief (KS) 18 June 2/2: There is now in session in the city of Chicago a nopndescript, black-and-tan, Rump Radical, politico-religious mob. | |
| Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 21 May 3/4: Is this all the outcome from his cheap minstrelsy, his black and tan jockey club? | |
| Recollections of a NY Chief of Police 486: [heading] Black-And-Tan [...] It is the resort of black men as well as white, but the girls are all white! | |
| How the Other Half Lives 150: The colored citizen whom this year’s census man found in his Ninety-ninth Street ‘flat’ is a very different individual from the ‘nigger’ his predecessor counted in the black-and-tan slums of Thompson and Sullivan Streets. [Ibid.] 213: The proprietor of one of the most disreputable Black-and-Tan dives and dancing-hells to be found anywhere. | |
| Colonel’s Dream 74: He’s not a ‘Black and Tan Republican,’ but a ‘Lily White’. | |
| Day Book (Chicago) 25 Oct. 4/2: Cap. Healy was critcized for ot shutting down the Jackson Club, a ‘balck-and-tan’ joint on 31st street. | |
| Gang 15: In this region of contrasting social conditions are high-class colored residential neighborhoods, as well as ‘black and tan’ cabarets, white and colored vice resorts. | |
| ‘When Hollywood Goes Black and Tan’ 🎵 Creole babies from Manhattan, / Will be leaving Harlem if they can, / Yeah, man! Oh, yeah, man! / When Hollywood goes black and tan! | |
| Law Rides the Range 204: She ran a black-and-tan road-house. | |
| (con. 1920) Mister Jelly Roll (1952) 166: I guess what worried them was that my place was black and tan – for coloured and white alike. | |
| Neon Wilderness (1986) 149: We got him drunk in a black-and-tan hot spot. | |
| USA Confidential 117: Negroes pour in on every train and bus. [...] Olson Highway, fittingly named after a former left-wing Governor, is almost completely black and tan. | |
| Maledicta III:2 167: black-and-tan adj Frequented by or catering to Negroes and whites. | |
| (con. 1940s–60s) ‘Spencer’s Pad’ in Eve. Sun Turned Crimson (1980) in Huncke Reader (1998) 99: My dear—it was really too much. It was a regular black and tan fantasy [...] Spencer so dark and Vernon pale white. |
2. mixed race.
| Dly Ohio Statesman (OH) 15 Aug. 2/3: The Black and Tan Convention [...] We would advise him to emigrate South [...] and prove his loyalty by hugging nigger wenches and insulting Southern white ladies. | |
| Gabriel Conroy III 122: You had to trapse down yer, sniffin’ about my tracks, you black and tan idiot. | |
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 5 Jan. 13/4: ‘I purtests,’ said Mattie Smith, the black-and-tan female. | |
 | A Pagan of the Alleghanies 25: Then the black-and-tan man treated himself to a fresh chew of ‘dog-leg’ [DA]. | |
| Dly Ardmoreite (Ardmore, OK) 7 Feb. 8/2: [headline] Suffragist Equality Black and Tan Club. New York Society Leader wipes out color line by eliciting Negro members. | |
| Day Book (Chicago) 8 May 32/1: Black and tan performers from the black-and-tan Elite cafe, 35th street, danced [...] the dance called Walkin’ the Dog. | |
| Dallas Express (TX) 9 Oct. 1/2: The Grand Court room [...] was crowded by enthusiastic Black and Tan [Republican] supporters [...] Mr McDonald then spoke briefly on the duty of Negroes of supporting the Black and Tan ticket. | |
| Mister Jelly Roll (1952) 100: This black and tan wedding took place in the streets of Storyville. | |
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