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Growing Up in the Black Belt `5: ‘I reckon there was ’tween thirty and forty men riding on horses, with guns and pistols. They was men from ’round that go for bad’.at go for bad (v.) under bad, adj.
Growing Up in the Black Belt `5: ‘I reckon there was ’tween thirty and forty men riding on horses, with guns and pistols. They was men from ’round that go for bad’. Growing Up in the Black Belt 298: Not all [. . .] youth [...] are as timid [...] There is, for instance, the so-called ‘bad nigger,’ who is less restrained by the powerful race mores, who will fight if attacked, and who refuses to be humiliated.at bad nigger (n.) under bad, adj.
Growing Up in the Black Belt 173: ‘How come you call him “blue child,”’ asks a big fellow [...] Another replies, ‘Man, can’t you see he’s so black that when he’s wet with water he looks blue?’.at blue, adj.6
Growing Up in the Black Belt 259: Black youth are called by such derisive names as ‘Snow,’ ‘Gold Dust Boys,’ ‘Blue Gums,’ ‘Midnight,’ ‘Shadow,’ ‘Haint,’ ‘Dusty,’ ‘Polish,’ and ‘Shine.’.at midnight (the cat), n.
Growing Up in the Black Belt 297: ‘I’ve had white children meddle me. They call me ’little black nigger’ and ’chocolate drop’ and things like that’.at chocolate drop (n.) under chocolate, adj.
Growing Up in the Black Belt 174: The spectators walk about the bleachers. [...] They shout continuously to the fighters and the referee. ‘G’on hit that nigger, Emmett!’ ‘Lay it on the coon, Little Caesar, you got him’ .at coon, n.
Growing Up in the Black Belt 219: [T]he white man had cheated him out of pract’ly everything. [...] They don’t let you keep books on ’em, and if you dispute ’em, that’s how they do you.at do, v.1
Growing Up in the Black Belt 5: ‘Niggers and white folks often get into it and kill each other’.at get into it (v.) under get into, v.
Growing Up in the Black Belt 1: [H]is complexion is so dark his associates have affectionately labeled him ‘Crow.’ He does not object to this label.at label, n.
Growing Up in the Black Belt 297: ‘I’ve had white children meddle me. They call me ’little black nigger’ and ’chocolate drop’ and things like that’.at meddle, v.
Growing Up in the Black Belt 294: ‘[I]f you play with white children and hurt ’em you might get into trouble. Yes, my mother did tell me that if you fool around and hurt ’em it would be all on you’.at on, prep.
Growing Up in the Black Belt 39: Schooled to an inadequate diet and to eking a scant living out of a poor soil, they live on ‘Tobacco Road,’ [...] proud toward upper-class whites, and inhospitable to the Negro.at Tobacco Road, n.
Growing Up in the Black Belt 313: ‘That prejudice I lost against white people is coming back because of these poor white crackers [...] If you go down there they call you “nigger” and run you’.at run, v.
Growing Up in the Black Belt 20: ‘Turn favors if people do something for you, and don’t run over folks or take advantage of them’.at run over (v.) under run, v.
Growing Up in the Black Belt 259: Black youth are called by such derisive names as ‘Snow,’ ‘Gold Dust Boys,’ ‘Blue Gums,’ ‘Midnight,’ ‘Shadow,’ ‘Haint,’ ‘Dusty,’ ‘Polish,’ and ‘Shine.’.at shadow, n.
Growing Up in the Black Belt 133: ‘If my mother and I make 70 cents a day we feel like we been goin’ some’.at go some (v.) under some, adv.
Growing Up in the Black Belt 81: ‘Most of the other children’s parents let them run the streets’.at run the street(s) (v.) under street, the, n.
Growing Up in the Black Belt 227: ‘I was going with a boy and he got me in trouble last year’.at get someone in(to) trouble (v.) under trouble, n.
Growing Up in the Black Belt 24: ‘The folks say that I’m uppity since I don’t associate with the children’.at uppity, adj.
Growing Up in the Black Belt 262: Although mulattoes on the whole appear to be proud of their lighter complexions, they are at a disadvantage when the question of paternity is raised by their darker associates. Such derisive terms as ’Yellow Pumpkin,’ ’Yellow Bastard,’ are used in this connection.at yellow pumpkin (n.) under yellow, adj.
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