Unkind Words: Ethnic Labeling from Redskin to WASP

Irving Lewis Allen

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Preface Traditional Slurs Ethnic Slurs in Historical American Slang Six Types of Slurs and Their Themes Two Hundred Personal Names that Became Epithets Men ... and One Hundred Epithets for Ethnic Women You Are What You Eat: Dietary Stereotypes Flippity Floppity: The Semantic Inversion and Trans-migration of Slurs Newer Devices Sly Slurs: Mispronunciation and Decapitalization of Group Names Sly Slurs: Euphemisms and Codewords Acrimonious Acronyms Ding Dong, the Wicked WASP is Dead Appendix: Good Reading on Bad Words Index of Slur-Names Author-Subject Index

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