Query: "wigger"

[Jerome Foster]

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From: "Gail Stygall" <stygall at U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 1:11 PM
Subject: Query: "wigger"


> ADSers:
> I am looking for origins and uses of the term "wigger."  One of my
> teenagers says that it was featured on one of the tv news magazines
> recently, but that he has never heard it in his larger, urban racially
> mixed high school.  Apparently the news magazine indicated that it was a
> white-on-white term.  Did anyone see this program or does anyone know of
> the origin?
> Gail Stygall
>
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> Gail Stygall <stygall at u.washington.edu>              (206) 543-2190
> Director, Expository Writing Program
> Associate Professor, English Language and Literature
> English, Box 354330, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-4330
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> Prof. Stygall:

I can't give you a specific reference but I know I've read it in some
popular publications
such as maybe the village Voice. It is used to describe white kids who
imitate black  ghetto street style of talk and dress and is a combination of
white and nigger.

J Foster