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Bookmark or Share- List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity - WikiwandThis list of ethnic slurs and epithets is sorted into categories that can defined by race, ethnicity, or nationality. Most of these black slurs and all these African slurs apply also to Cape Coloureds. People of mixed races in South Africa are referred to as Coloured with no derogatory connections. (Rhodesia) African to a white Rhodesian (Rhodie).
- Racial Slurs - Encyclopedia.comRacial slurs, often called racial epithets, are words or phrases that refer to members of racial and ethnic groups in a derogatory manner. Slurs and all other forms of racial defamation dehumanize targeted groups and justify racial oppression by suggesting that targeted populations are unworthy of equality (Clark 1995, p. 6).
- Use of nigger in proper names - WikipediaIn 1966, the First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, denounced the racist name, asking the U.S. Board on Geographic Names and the U.S. Forest Service to rename it, becoming "Colored Mountain" in 1968. [citation needed] Other renamings were more creative.
- U.S. Will Rename 660 Mountains, Rivers and More to Remove Racist WordU.S. Will Rename 660 Mountains, Rivers and More to Remove Racist Word. A task force is identifying new names for sites on federal land that bear a derogatory term referring to Indigenous women
- Racist Slurs in Place-Names Have to Go, Say GeoscientistsMore than a thousand geographic features in the United States have racial slurs in their name. The slurs include derogatory terms for people who are Black, Indigenous, and of Asian descent and...
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