| 单词 | handkerchief head |
| 释义 | > as lemmashandkerchief head handkerchief head n. chiefly U.S. (derogatory and offensive) (chiefly in African-American use) a black person considered submissive or servile to white people; an ‘Uncle Tom’.Particularly associated with the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.In quot. 1917 (probably) simply: a person who wears a handkerchief headdress. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [noun] > in or as in black person > one who Uncle Tom1852 handkerchief head1917 white nigger1937 1917 Rep. Appellate Courts Illinois 201 259 Plaintiff was being made worse by having her condition discussed..by the witness and some women whom the doctor called ‘Old handkerchief heads’. 1924 R. Minor in Crisis Dec. 86/2 The ‘handkerchief-head’ who diverts hatred from the master of the Great House must logically claim his reward in victuals and cast-off clothing. 1960 Encounter 14 ii. 39 The Negro officer isn't a ‘handkerchief head’, an Uncle Tom. 2008 W. Marsalis & G. C. Ward Moving to Higher Ground iii. 56 Many of my generation considered older black people to be Uncle Toms and handkerchief-heads if they didn't talk some type of Black Nationalist rhetoric. < as lemmas |
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