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& al. Color & Human Nature 175: He is active in politics and would like to join a fraternal order that includes, he says, ’a lot of big niggers who could do a lot to help me’.at big nigger (n.) under big, adj.
& al. Color & Human Nature 175: He is active in politics and would like to join a fraternal order that includes, he says, ’a lot of big niggers who could do a lot to help me’. & al. Color & Human Nature 242: My mother sent my sister off and when she came home she had the big head. Nothing was right at home.at big head, n.1
& al. Color & Human Nature 266: ‘Because our membership is made up of these types of people and so many of my best workers are fair in color, the rumor has been circulated that we cater only to the ’blue veins’.at blue vein (n.) under blue-veined, adj.
& al. Color & Human Nature 260: When I learned that they took me to the hospital in the patrol wagon, I sure was brought down.at brought down, adj.
& al. Color & Human Nature 1127: I also play policy and I am a lucky black woman. I catch all the time.at catch, v.1
& al. Color & Human Nature 123: Mr. Connor, with whom she has been having relations and who gets ‘crazy jealous’ of her persistent other affairs .at crazy, adv.
& al. Color & Human Nature 121: [in sense of impregnate] I don’t fool around with bright people ’cause my sister let a bright boy mess her up down South. A friend of ours sent her girl up here and one of these nice looking bright boys fooled her up too’.at fool up (v.) under fool, n.
& al. Color & Human Nature 232: When I see the word maid, why, girl, let me tell you, it just runs through me!at girl, n.1
& al. Color & Human Nature 118: Mrs. Evans is what some southern white persons would call ‘a good nigger.’ So definite is the personality that her rural southern background gave her that she implicitly believes in the superiority of white blood, and she easily adjusts in an inferior social position.at good nigger (n.) under good, adj.1
& al. Color & Human Nature 113: ‘I got my blackjack and pistol, and if I had found him that night I would have killed him graveyard dead’.at graveyard dead (adj.) under graveyard, n.
& al. Color & Human Nature 95: ‘Our one great desire was to go up North. Home girls would [...] tell us about Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit, and we would thrill’.at homegirl, n.
& al. Color & Human Nature 249: ‘You’re not really bad; you’re always into something. You remind me of your father. He wasn’t really bad. He was just always on the go’.at into, prep.3
& al. Color & Human Nature 121: I don’t fool around with bright people ’cause my sister let a bright boy mess her up down South. A friend of ours sent her girl up here and one of these nice looking bright boys fooled her up too’.at mess up, v.
& al. Color & Human Nature 179: The average Negro political leader has one thing on his mind, that is to grease his mitt and to hell with the underdog.at grease one’s mitts/paw (v.) under mitt, n.
& al. Color & Human Nature 117: ‘I have a swell boy friend. [...] I like him very much. [...] Oh shucks, he’s the sweetest little nigger I have ever had in my life.at nigger, n.1
& al. Color & Human Nature 117: ‘[S]he wrote me if I came down there to take the boys from her she would put the white folks on me’.at put on, v.
& al. Color & Human Nature 117: ‘I like him very much. We have been on the outs but he came over yesterday and we made up’.at on the outs under out, n.
& al. Color & Human Nature 136: It is reported that he [a 13-year-old black boy who could ’pass’ as white] is active and enjoys play with Negro boys, and many of the mischievous ones consider him ’regular’ because of his moderate indulgence in lying, stealing, and fighting.at regular, adj.
& al. Color & Human Nature 273: ‘I last masturbated when I was 18 or 19. I was on a plantation then with nice people or nice girls, married men and women. I didn’t want to spoil any of them’.at spoil (a woman’s shape) (v.) under spoil, v.
& al. Color & Human Nature 254: ‘The only fault was that the neighborhood was infested with sporting women and pimps. I was never permitted to go out alone’.at sporting lady (n.) under sporting, adj.
& al. Color & Human Nature 156: ‘Then I found me another sweet man who was so mean to me. He even knocked my teeth out. [...] So I left and went East. I made plenty of money there’.at sweetman, n.
& al. Color & Human Nature 151: ‘My sister and I were often referred to as ’Tallow Face’ or ’redheaded yaller niggers’ .at tallow face (n.) under tallow, n.
& al. Color & Human Nature 174: ‘A family of poor whites moved into the neighborhood, and they fought with us and called us “nigger.” Those people were so trashy; I surely didn’t want to act and look like them’.at trashy, adj.
& al. Color & Human Nature 156: [S]he finds prostitution very profitable. She has ‘worked’ in most of the larger northern cities, where she has a long police record.at work, v.
& al. Color & Human Nature 243: This woman and others like her stress the value of their appearance in securing white patrons. One who for some years has been mistress to a white man (‘I couldn’t be bothered with those cheap zigs’).at zig, n.1
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