[Ads-l] Antedating of "Jungle Bunny" (Racist Slur)

[Shapiro, Fred]

jungle bunny (OED 1966, Green 1956)

1954 Journal of Educational Sociology Oct. 72 (JSTOR)

The children ... openly joked about Negroes in imitation of the adults there .  They called Negroes "jungle bunny," "charcoal" and other equally uncomplimentary names.

Fred Shapiro

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