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[ noun ] a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
Synonyms Used in print (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)When we got there , Trig and the Negro were quarreling over possession of a gold crucifix around the neck of a wounded Filipino . `` The Negro got a bad slice on his chest from the knife wound '' . (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)It spread to most of the audience and was often viewed by visiting whites who snickered behind handkerchief and afterward discussed Negro religion . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)She was the only kind of Negro Laura_Andrus would want around : independent , unservile , probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework - and doubly efficient . |
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[ adjective ] relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair
Used in print (James Bryant Conant, Slums and Suburbs...)Undoubtedly far more can be done in the lower grades in this regard in the Negro schools . (Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)In town after town my companion pointed_out the Negro school and the White school , and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer , for_one_thing ) . and one finds it again in Thomas_Nelson_Page ) to the effect that the Mayflower on its second voyage brought a cargo of Negro slaves . (Edward Jablonski, Harold Arlen Happy with the Blues....)The Negro composer Hall_Johnson studied the Americanegro_Suite and said of it , `` Of all the many songs written by white composers and employing what claims to be a Negroid idiom in both words and music , these six songs by Harold_Arlen and Ted_Koehler easily stand far out above the rest . Thoroughly modern in treatment , they are at_the_same_time , full of simple sincerity which invariably characterizes genuine Negro folk-music and are by_no_means to be confused with the average ' Broadway Spirituals ' which depend for their racial flavor upon sundry allusions to the ' Amen_Corner ' , ' judgement_day ' , ' Gabriel 's horn ' , and a frustrated devil - with a_few random ' Hallelujahs ' thrown_in for_good_measure . Related terms |
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