单词 | aunt jemima |
释义 | > as lemmasAunt Jemima Aunt Jemima n. [ < Aunt Jemima (late 19th cent.), a brand name for a range of foodstuffs produced originally by the Aunt Jemima Mills Co. of St Joseph, Missouri, bearing the logo of a black woman] U.S. colloquial (derogatory) a black woman, (in later use) spec. one considered submissive or servile towards white people; cf. Uncle Tom n. ΚΠ 1853 Gleason's Pict. 5 Feb. 94/3 The [title of] uncle was a courtesy they gave..Just as the master makes of some good slave An Aunt Jemima, or an Uncle Jim.] 1897 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 30 Oct. 6/2 Of course, the more ludicrous the combinations of form and color, the better, and yellow kid niggers, Uncle Toms, Aunt Jemimas, Darktown Swells and many other curious and comical characters will be in evidence in the walk. 1944 Phylon 5 244 Significant among such names are these: George, James, Sam, Sambo, Uncle Tom, Marcus, Garvey, Jim, Rastus—all applied to male Negroes; Aunt Jemima , Brown Sugar, Dark Meat, Shady Lady, Mandy, Mammy, Raven Beauty—female Negroes; [etc.]. 1961 Chicago Daily Defender 7 Aug. 9/3 A Negro high school principal in a mostly white school who backed the school board was attacked by Zuber as ‘The Aunt Jemima of Uncle Tom's cabin’. 1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 1 Dec. 89/2 Grady..was already working part-time in white homes. One day a boy started ragging Grady for being an ‘Aunt Jemima’. 2015 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Aug. b17 She charged that the film depicted her as an ‘Aunt Jemima’ who sang gospel songs and spoke in a stereotyped dialect. < as lemmas |
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