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in Negro in N.Y. (1967) 245: In debunking the ‘Negro Renaissance,’ the Negro writer, Wallace Thuman, spoke of the artists and writers who exploited the white people who supported it as the ‘Niggeratti’.at -ati, sfx
in Negro in N.Y. (1967) 245: In debunking the ‘Negro Renaissance,’ the Negro writer, Wallace Thuman, spoke of the artists and writers who exploited the white people who supported it as the ‘Niggeratti’. (con. a.1940) Negro in N.Y. 249: The only furniture was a piano at which a ‘box-beater’ extracted weird and dissonant harmonies.at box-beater (n.) under box, n.1
(con. 1925–9) Negro in N.Y. 249: Many small-time ‘pimps’ and ‘madames’ [...] operated undercover ‘buffet flats’.at buffet (flat), n.
(con. 1925–9) Negro in N.Y. 249: The house-rent party [...] blossomed in the 1920s. Mostly employed as ‘pot rasslers,’ [...] ‘sud busters,’ and ‘ham heavers’, Negroes found their small salaries inadequate for Cotton Clubs.at sud-buster, n.
(con. 1925–9) Negro in N.Y. 240: The steady increase in Harlem’s population led to an overflowing of this class into the Washington Heights section, known to negroes as ‘Sugar Hill’.at Sugar Hill, n.
(con. 1925–9) Negro in N.Y. 247: Ed Small’s now-forgotten Sugar Cane Club at 135th Street and Fifth Avenue. It was Harlem’s main ‘jump joint’.at jump joint (n.) under jump, n.
(con. 1925–9) Negro in N.Y. 249: The house-rent party [...] blossomed in the 1920s. Mostly employed as ‘pot rasslers,’ [...] ‘sud busters,’ and ‘ham heavers,’ Negroes found their small salaries inadequate for Cotton Clubs.at pot-wrestler (n.) under pot, n.1
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