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house nigger; house nigga
noun
a black person who curries favour from white people and in return is given some small degree of privilege US, 1968
An updated ‘house slave’.- Professors are house niggers and students are field niggers. — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 215, 1970
- 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
- He remembers his father as a head-screatching, foot-shuffling odd-job boy who aspired to be a house nigger. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 13, 1970
- Uncle Tom is a HOUSE NIGGER. — Malachi Andrews and Paul T. Owens, Black Language, p. 78, 1973
- Van was doing a Tom act that would’ve put any old time house nigger to utter shame. — Odie Hawkins, Scars and Memories, p. 158, 1987
- [A]ll he got from the community, his community, was [...] a lot of abuse about being an “Uncle Tom”, a “house nigga”, a “coconut”. He had heard it all. — Karline Smith, Moss Side Massive, p. 181, 1994
- Then how come Nick says yeah, you’re his house-nigga. — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 126, 1999
- [W]hen she refused to talk to him, he started berating her and Sing Sing’s two black captains as “house niggers.” — Ted Conover, Newjack, p. 133, 2000
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