Are terms like mulatto and quadroon racist?

[DCal430]

Honestly I don't know, I always assumed these were just terms of facts not racist or anything, but i was wondering do some blacks find them offensives. s

FYI:

Mulatto: is someone who is about half black and half white

Quadroon: is someone who 1/4 black and 3/4 white

 

[JM Aggie08]

Quadroon roles off the tongue quite nicely.

 

[Soundmanred]

I wonder how many quadroons die unexpectedly each year? I estimate it to be in the hundreds of millions.

 

[MaxPayne63]

I believe that tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of people find them racist.

edit: son of a bitch; beaten by one minute.

 

[SKORPI0]

Not familiar with those words but here's a List of Ethnic Slurs. :hmm:

 

[KeithTalent]

Not familiar with those words but here's a List of Ethnic Slurs. :hmm:

Well that's a fun little list.

KT

 

[Anubis]

wtf quardoon? really. people actually came up with this?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I've heard mixed-race people use "mulatto" unironically in reference to themselves, and when I asked they said it wasn't a slur.

However, I tend to assume that any term used by a colonial power or occupying force prior to the first Geneva Convention is automatically racist and stuck with "mixed race."

It's bad enough sorting through all the more modern racial slurs, former slurs, soon-to-be-universally-regarded-as-slurs, etc. Might as well leave more archaic terminology in the past.

 

[DCal430]

wtf is quardoon?

Yes 1/4 black and 3/4 white.

There are also Octoroons, 1/8 black.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

wtf is quardoon?

http://etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=quadroon&searchmode=none

3/4 one thing, 1/4 the other.

 

[Anubis]

interesting....

 

[Phanuel]

Well that's a fun little list.

KT

It's missing 'Halfrican'.


Guess that makes me a racist or something, what with coming up with new bad words and all.

 

[Colt45]

I thought mulatto was kinda standard, with mestizo, metis, etc.

'biracial' is the worst ever. I'd be offended if someone called me that.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

It's missing 'Halfrican'.

It's also missing "Canadian."

I learned it from waitstaff. It's code for African American. They use it to tell each other about expected tips, etc.

No, seriously.

More widely used and/or useful in the south, where there aren't as many actual Canadians, though.

 

[darkxshade]

Honestly I don't know, I always assumed these were just terms of facts not racist or anything, but i was wondering do some blacks find them offensives. s

FYI:

Mulatto: is someone who is about half black and half white

Quadroon: is someone who 1/4 black and 3/4 white

I would estimate half of the black population to take offense to Mulatto and a quarter of the black population would take offense to Quadroon.

 

[JM Aggie08]

I would estimate half of the black population to take offense to Mulatto and a quarter of the black population would take offense to Quadroon.

:hmm:...


...:awe:

 

[nehalem256]

Honestly I don't know, I always assumed these were just terms of facts not racist or anything, but i was wondering do some blacks find them offensives. s

FYI:

Mulatto: is someone who is about half black and half white

Quadroon: is someone who 1/4 black and 3/4 white

Wouldn't it be mulatoos and quadroons that find the terms offensive? :sneaky:

 

[Greenman]

Not familiar with those words but here's a List of Ethnic Slurs. :hmm:

I'm really behind on my racism, I've never heard of most of those.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Nagat zuul!

 

[sdifox]

why would they be considered racist when they are not races?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

What would you do if you met a jaboo?

 

[PottedMeat]

i'd laugh at the person that said 'quadroon' if i heard it

 

[lxskllr]

Wigger goes back waaay farther than I thought.

(US) used in 19th-century United States to refer to the Irish. Sometimes used today in reference to white people in a manner similar to white trash or redneck. Also refers to white youth that imitate urban black youth by means of clothing style, mannerisms, and slang speech. The 'w' at the start of wigger refers to the white person and the 'igger' refers to ******, which is a racial slur for black people.[189] Also used by radical Québécois in self-reference, as in the seminal 1968 book White ******s of America.

 

[PenguinPower]

Well that's a fun little list.

KT

Too long. What's the slur for half-asian/half-caucasian. I want to make sure I'm calling my kids the right thing.^_^

 

[DCal430]

Here are pictures of well known Quadroons: