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Cracker (term) Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial slur directed towards white people, [1][2][3] used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States. [4] Although commonly a pejorative, it is also used in a neutral context, particularly in reference to a native of Florida or Georgia (see Florida ...
Sep 27, 2023 · The word “cracker” has a long history as a racial slur and derogatory term, particularly directed at white people of Anglo-Saxon descent. It originated during the era of slavery in the United States, when it was used by enslaved African Americans to refer to white overseers, slave drivers, or poor white individuals.
Jul 1, 2013 · But it turns out cracker's roots go back even further than the 17th century. All the way back to the age of Shakespeare, at least. "The meaning of the word has changed a lot over the last four ...
It was in the late 1800s when writers from the North started referring to the hayseed faction of Southern homesteaders as crackers. " [Those writers] decided that they were called that because of ...
Apr 24, 2024 · Despite its relative lack of prominence in discussions compared to other racial slurs, the term “Cracker” holds a deep-seated historical significance and carries weighty implications. In 2013 ...
Jul 2, 2013 · He'd written about the etymology of some anti-white slurs: peckerwood, Miss Anne and Mister Charlie, and buckra, a term that was once widely used throughout the black diaspora, in the Americas, the Caribbean and in West Africa. "Cracker," the old standby of Anglo insults was first noted in the mid 18th century, making it older than the United ...
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May 24, 2013 · Shakespeare's King John (1595) includes the statement: "What cracker is this . . . that deafes our ears / With this abundance of superfluous breath?" By 1760 the English, both in Colonial America and in Great Britain were using the word cracker to describe the Scot-Irish settlers in the back-country of the Southern American colonies.
