Buckra

Buckra is a slang term primarily used by African-Americans in the Southeast United States to describe a white man.

"De nigger was de right arm of de buckra class. De buckra was de horn of plenty for de nigger. Both suffer in consequence of freedom."...(Moses Lyles, a former slave in South Carolina, speaking in the 1930s).[1] As clearly noted in this 1916 publication, there was also the white trash level of buckra, referred by both Southern races as "poor buckras"...locally pronounced "po' buckras". [2]

See also

In other languages

  • Bakra (Sranang Tongo, Surinamese) meaning "white men", "master" or "boss"
  • Bakra (Jamaican patois) slave master, oppressor.
  • mbakara (Ibibio) used to refer to white people and things associated with whiteness and the Western world

References

  1. ↑ Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long, p. 214)
  2. ↑ John George Clinkscales, "On the Old Plantation: Reminiscences of His Childhood", pages 11 & 33
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