red nigger

Noun

red nigger (plural red niggers)

1. (ethnic slur, derogatory, slang) A Native American person
   • 1987 Appalachee Red pg 103

     there stood the big red nigger

   • 2006 New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English page 1603

     In May 1997, the state says Cilley, 19, and Smith, 20, drove by the home of a Passamaquoddy family in Indian Township in Washington County, yelling "prairie nigger," "red nigger" and "Indian nigger".

   • 2016Native Americans in Comic Books pg 99

     Thunderbird is not called a “redskin” by his teammates, nor do his enemies refer to him as a “red nigger.

2. An African-American of mixed European descent
   • 2001 Patricia Ismond Abandoning Dead Metaphors

     epithets - "red nigger" and "Shabine" - which are synonymous in the local idiom, describe persons of mixed African and European blood, this being the first point of identification between Walcott and his protagonist. As " red nigger", the lower-class counterpart to the "mulatto", Shabine comes from the ranks of the ordinary man.

Related terms

for natives

• prairie nigger
• Indian nigger
• redskin
• timber nigger
• tree nigger

For African-Americans

• mulatto
• Shabine

Anagrams

• red ginger, regreding