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A form of entertainment that involved white performers caricaturing black people, contributing to the racialization of the term 'nigger'.
The word "nigger" evolved from a descriptive term rooted in Latin niger ("black") into one of the most violent racial epithets in English, shifting meanings through colonialism, slavery, popular cultu...
The slur "nigger" etymologically descends from the Latin adjective niger, meaning "black," and entered English via Romance languages—Spanish negro and French nègre—by the 16th century . Over the 18th ...