"Picaninny" redirects here. Not to be confused with Picatinny. For other uses, see Pickaninny (disambiguation).
Postcard titled "Six Little Pickaninnies" (Detroit Publishing, 1902)
Pickaninny (also picaninny, piccaninny or pickininnie) is a pidgin word for a small child, possibly derived from the Portuguese pequenino ('boy, child, very small, tiny').[1] It has been used as a racial slur for African American children and a pejorative term for Aboriginal children of the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand. It can also refer to a derogatory caricature of a dark-skinned child of African descent.[2]
^"pickaninny". Oxford English Dictionary online (draft revision ed.). March 2010. Probably < a form in an [sic] Portuguese-based pidgin < Portuguese pequenino boy, child, use as noun of pequenino very small, tiny (14th cent.; earlier as pequeninno (13th cent.))...
^Room, Adrian (1986). A Dictionary of True Etymologies. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Inc. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-415-03060-1.
Pickaninny (also picaninny, piccaninny or pickininnie) is a pidgin word for a small child, possibly derived from the Portuguese pequenino ('boy, child...
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that the illustrations were, as Langston Hughes expressed it, in the pickaninny style. In more recent editions, both text and illustrations have undergone...
Sam balances his new possessions, which are racistly depicted in the pickaninny stereotype; the figures are Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Cuba, Philippines and...
dogs and children." The alligator bait image is a subtype of the racist pickaninny caricature and stereotype of black children, where they were represented...
mostly retain the look of the stereotypical blackface minstrel. The term pickaninny, reserved for children, has a similarly broadened pattern of use in popular...
Eastern immigrants Pepper or Pepsi Canada French Canadians or Québécois. Pickaninny African American or West Indies child Piefke Austria Prussians and Germans...
Antigua and St. Kitts, akin to the standard-English pejorative/epithet pickaninny) and chook (Nigerian Pidgin for "poke" or "stab") which corresponds with...
The Conjure Woman, including "Mars Jeems's Nightmare", "Sis' Becky's Pickaninny", "The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt", and "Hot-Foot Hannibal". Houghton Mifflin did...
its replacement "Negro" still remained in GNIS names in 2015, as did "Pickaninny", "Uncle Tom", and "Jim Crow" and 33 places named "Niggerhead". There...
Golliwog House Negro Jim Crow Kaffir Macaca Mammy Negro Nigger (Nigga) Pickaninny Rastus Queen / Queenie Sambo Tar-Baby Uncle Tom Wog North and South Americans...
Angelfood McSpade Bigger Hair Blackface Coon Chicken Inn Coon song Golliwog Pickaninny Rastus Other Black doll Miss Ann Mister Charlie House negro Uncle Tom...
Piccaninnie Ponds Conservation Park, formerly the Piccaninnie Ponds National Park, is a protected area of 862 hectares (2,130 acres) located in southeastern...
being widely considered a racist caricature of black people, alongside pickaninnies, minstrels, and mammy figures. The doll is characterised by jet black...
Golliwog House Negro Jim Crow Kaffir Macaca Mammy Negro Nigger (Nigga) Pickaninny Rastus Queen / Queenie Sambo Tar-Baby Uncle Tom Wog North and South Americans...
some her renditions of songs such as "That's Why Darkies Were Born" and "Pickaninny Heaven". Her family responded by denying the allegations and argued that...
minstrel show tradition and the pickaninny caricature: Pat Sullivan... started off on his own, doing his little Negro Pickaninny [Sammie Johnsin]. Which later...
Angelfood McSpade Bigger Hair Blackface Coon Chicken Inn Coon song Golliwog Pickaninny Rastus Other Black doll Miss Ann Mister Charlie House negro Uncle Tom...
Golliwog House Negro Jim Crow Kaffir Macaca Mammy Negro Nigger (Nigga) Pickaninny Rastus Queen / Queenie Sambo Tar-Baby Uncle Tom Wog North and South Americans...
Angelfood McSpade Bigger Hair Blackface Coon Chicken Inn Coon song Golliwog Pickaninny Rastus Other Black doll Miss Ann Mister Charlie House negro Uncle Tom...
Golliwog House Negro Jim Crow Kaffir Macaca Mammy Negro Nigger (Nigga) Pickaninny Rastus Queen / Queenie Sambo Tar-Baby Uncle Tom Wog North and South Americans...
Angelfood McSpade Bigger Hair Blackface Coon Chicken Inn Coon song Golliwog Pickaninny Rastus Other Black doll Miss Ann Mister Charlie House negro Uncle Tom...
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