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field nigger
noun
a black person who does not curry favour from white people and thus is afforded no degree of privilege US, 1970- “That where you show you’re just a field nigger.” — Frank Bonham, Duranog Street, p. 61, 1965
- Malcolm X extended and popularized the concept; a field nigger was more likely to become a revolutionary while the house nigger was more likely to be an Uncle Tom. — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 53, 1970
- Professors are house niggers and students are field niggers. — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 215, 1970
- A term used by young Black Revolutionaries in the late 1960s as a way of identifying the slave who wasn’t ready for slavery. (The term went out with the 70’s, but the feeling remains.) — Malachi Andrews and Paul T. Owens, Black Language, p. 78, 1973
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