单词 | field negro |
释义 | > as lemmasfield Negro field Negro n. now chiefly U.S. a black field labourer, esp. a black slave working on a plantation (now historical); (in extended use) an African American having a confrontational attitude towards the establishment; cf. house Negro n. at house n.1 and int. Compounds 10.The extended use was popularized by the African-American political activist Malcolm X (1925–65) in a speech made in 1963. ΚΠ 1730 Let. to Bishop of London from Inhabitant of Leeward-Caribbee Islands 22 The Liberty of Marketting has been granted every where to the Field-Negroes. 1840 D. Turnbull Trav. in West 51 We shall see how very differently the unhappy field negro is treated. 1921 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 171/2 The average field negro of to-day is likely to be something of a brute in his own family. 1943 Pittsburgh Courier 21 Aug. 7/2 A Negro newspaper, including this type, which..regards the present setup of Negro leaders as stooges—as the field-Negroes regarded the house-Negroes. 1965 Malcolm X Speaks i. 11 [Transcription of speech made 10 Nov. 1963 in Detroit] You've got field Negroes in America today. I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. 1972 Guardian 9 June 10/5 Othello and Iago represent contrasting black stereotypes: what Malcolm X called the House Negro, who totally accepts his master's system of values, and the Field Negro who is a congenital revolutionary. 1998 Callaloo 21 794 He insists that he's a black man, a descendant of field Negroes, and that he's a field Negro. < as lemmas |
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