English Dictionary

red nigger

noun

(ethnic slur, derogatory, slang, dated) A Native American person. / (Caribbean, ethnic slur) A person of mixed Black and European descent.

She wore a red dress to the party.

意味（1）

(ethnic slur, derogatory, slang, dated) A Native American person.

His dark, sunburnt features flushed a deep red, as if all his blood had rushed to his face; while his eye wandered around the crowd, as if seeking a way to escape from so uncomfortable a situation. But finding himself completely hemmed in, and every eye fixed upon him, he said, as if with a desperate attempt at articulation: “My friends, I s'pose I'm to consider all you’ve said as meanin' complimentary, and so I’ll put up with't for onc't, but I gin ye the honor o' a white gintleman, I’d rayther hev a hull yellin' tribe o' the cussed red-nigger Wyandotts arter me, nor stand sich another white whoop on account of my own doin's. I'll fight Injens with the best feller amongst ye—but I can't stand to be made a show on.”

意味（2）

(Caribbean, ethnic slur) A person of mixed Black and European descent.

A Trinidadian notes that 'today there are fewer and fewer red niggers and more and more Black men of light complexion, who have healed the psychological and moral gaps in their consciousness, and understood that their salvation and identity lie in their self-identification with the Black masses'.