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Negro Youth 56: ‘You [i.e. a black boy] shouldn’t act like you know too much. Treat white people courteous at all times and if necessary, do a little flattering and ‘coat-tail’ kissing’ .at ass-kissing, n.
Negro Youth 56: ‘You [i.e. a black boy] shouldn’t act like you know too much. Treat white people courteous at all times and if necessary, do a little flattering and ‘coat-tail’ kissing’ . Negro Youth 37: Even in crime, as for example in the ‘numbers’ racket, the white ‘bankers’ have maneuvered control into their hands.at banker, n.
Negro Youth 106: ‘[T]eachers usually set up some dumb-Dora or bum as the best liked and most popular individual [...] some real fair boy or girl from some big shot’s family’.at bum, n.3
Negro Youth 140: ‘Trouble is, he takes a big risk because usually he’s found out in the end—and the job goes bye-bye!’.at go (to) bye-bye(s) (v.) under bye-bye(s), n.
Negro Youth 244: At the times of the interviews with Mrs. Small and Almina, the mother was ill: ‘I’m going through the change’.at change, n.
Negro Youth 216: ‘I’ve just itched to take a crack at a white guy just to see if he can take it like he can dish it’.at take a crack at (v.) under crack, n.1
Negro Youth 109: The principal calls assemblies to reprimand the disorderly ones. I am not included because I know I don’t cut up on the streetcars.at cut up, v.1
Negro Youth 16: [B]ootleg liquor known as ‘mammy,’ ‘splo,’ and ‘derail’ is sold in the dens of vice to which men go for all types of sexual pleasures.at derail, n.
Negro Youth 106: [T]eachers usually set up some dumb-Dora or bum as the best liked and most popular individual.at dumb dora (n.) under dumb, adj.1
Negro Youth 105: ‘[T]he dark children wouldn’t get credit for what they did. I suppose they meant that if you made a certain mark, you weren’t apt to receive it, or if you really passed an examination, they may flunk you.at flunk, v.
Negro Youth 75: When I was small I played with white boys and girls, but when I became about fifteen I noticed they had a different feeling toward me [...] At fifteen I believe the girls’ parents got behind them. We had grown up.at get behind (v.) under get, v.
Negro Youth 129: Then came a vivid dramatization of the poses struck by these ‘gospel slingers,’ with their fervent gestures and efforts to ‘shout’ the people.at gospel slinger (n.) under gospel, n.
Negro Youth 99: ‘They [the lighter boys and girls] don’t want to be around you, and they act ‘hinkty’ ’.at hincty, adj.
Negro Youth xvii: ‘As soon as we can get you on the [tennis] courts we want you. We haven’t forgotten the ‘horse shoes’ you had last year. Too bad you won’t try to take it out on me in Ping-pong. On a table I’m a champion and I know it.’.at horseshoe, n.
Negro Youth xxi: ‘I haven’t read a book since I graduated last year [...] you can keep that reading ‘jibe’’.at jive, n.1
Negro Youth 93: Half the ceilings fell in Cardoza just before school closed. This has happened in a number of schools this year, even up at Miner Teachers College, the ‘junkiest’ building I know.at junk, adj.
Negro Youth 137: ‘Don’t make me laugh! You know “niggers” don’t have the chance white people have anywhere’.at don’t make me laugh under laugh, v.
Negro Youth 142: ‘Negroes who try to pass for white are ‘messy’ anyway. They usually think they’re so much better than other people’.at messy, adj.1
Negro Youth 149: These so-called successful Negroes aren’t doing a thing but ‘jibing.’ They get by with a lot of mouth, the kind of pull you can get with rackets.at mouth, n.
Negro Youth 99: ‘They [the lighter boys and girls] don’t want to be around you, and they act ‘hinkty.’ [...] One day I wanted to be with some of them, and they walked away and didn’t associate with me...One day in the locker room a girl wanted something I had, and I wouldn’t give it to her. . . . She said: ‘Oh, go on away, you old black nigger’.at nigger, n.1
Negro Youth 172: If these white people get mad, they will turn off all those men they have [employed] now’.at turn off, v.1
Negro Youth 180: ‘After all, a colored person who says he doesn’t want to be white must be kinda off’.at off, adv.4
Negro Youth 98: He was a tall brown-skin man. He was partial to position. [...] All he wanted to know was, ‘Who are your people?’ .at people, n.
Negro Youth 174: ‘If they would stick together [...] and not take so much stuff off white people, they’d treat Negroes as they have to treat them in other places’.at take shit under shit, n.
Negro Youth 129: Then came a vivid dramatization of the poses struck by these ‘gospel slingers,’ with their fervent gestures and efforts to ‘shout’ the people.at shout, v.
Negro Youth 100: Some of the youth in Louisville told stories of fights in school because the darker children were called ‘black’ or ‘smoky’.at smoky, n.
Negro Youth 16: [B]ootleg liquor known as ‘mammy,’ ‘splo,’ and ‘derail’ is sold in the dens of vice to which men go for all types of sexual pleasures.at splo, n.
Negro Youth xvii: ‘Well, gang, it’s about time we go girl hunting. I ain’t had no stuff all week’ .at stuff, n.
Negro Youth 16: [S]ome families live beyond their means, or, as one investigator found, the head of the family engages in so called ‘sundown’ occupations.at sundown, adj.
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