racial epithets

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Sat Jul 30 05:52:41 UTC 2005


>1911 Edna Ferber _Buttered Side Down_ 212 : Looking like a flat-nosed,
>blue-gummed Igorrote [sic].

Igorrote = Igorot refers to a [member of a] tribe in northern Luzon
(Philippines), I believe. Some 'Igorrotes' appeared at the 1904 World's
Fair in St. Louis apparently.

-- Doug Wilson



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