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Word: hardheaded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harlem is where Negroes refer to one another as "nigger" and "brother," "spook" and "hardhead," but woe to the white man who uses the same expression. It is where the white man is no longer the "ofay" (pig Latin for foe), but "Mr. Charlie" or "the man," and mostly "whitey," derived from the Black Nationalist talk of "the blue-eyed white devil." It is where a common laborer mutters to himself at a corner bar: "You don't come up to Harlem and whip my head, white man. You can whip me somewhere else. But not here, white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Place Like Home | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

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