Title: Unkind words : ethnic labeling from Redskin to WASP /
Authors: Allen, Irving L., 1931-2002.
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey,
Year: 1990
Subjects: English language Social aspects United States; English language United States Slang.; Stereotypes (Social psychology); Ethnic groups Slang.; Americanisms.; Epithets.; United States Ethnic relations.
Abstract: Examines the traditional slurs in American vernaculars and the order of ethnic labeling.
Contents: PART I: Traditional Slurs : 1. Ethnic slurs in historical American slang -- 2. Six types of slurs and their themes -- 3. Two hundred personal names that became epithets -- 4. Men... and one hundred epithets for ethnic women -- 5. You are what you eat: Dietary stereotypes -- 6. Flippity floppity: The semantic inversion and transmigration of slurs -- PART II: Newer Devices -- 7. Sly slurs: Mispronunciation and decapitalization of group names -- 8. Sly slurs: Euphemisms and codewords -- 9. Acrimonious acronyms -- 10. Ding dong, the wicked WASP is dead -- Afterword -- Appendix: Good reading on bad words.