niggerskin

Noun

niggerskin (plural niggerskins)

1. (derogatory, offensive, slang) A black person's skin.
   • A curious, throbbing, impersonal force flowed through me and around me in an unstemmable tide. It was in the music, in the soft, soft niggerskins, in the pale whiteskins.1944, Sylvestre Cornelius Watkins, Anthology of American Negro Literature (Modern library of the world's best books), Modern Library, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 352
   • Those with nothing to hock could always sell their loved one's hide to a
     tannery for the niggerskin trade....2000 December 5, Byker, “Funeral business booms in kaffir country”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet)
2. (derogatory, ethnic, metonymically, offensive, slang, slur) A black person.
   • The voices had begun to circle silently and secretly and purposefully. “You're from Jap-pan pan pan niggerskin, and you made Pearl Harbor where we got you. Rat-ta-tat-tat!”1976, Asian American Women, Asian American Women, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39
   • So are many of the quiet, orderly scenes in the school's halls. Children come back from recess on the run, pushing and shoving. One child three days in a row yells, “Niggerskins, niggerskins,” at another who is foreign-born.1981, The Journalism Research Fellows Report: What Makes an Effective School?, Institute for Educational Leadership, →OCLC, page 91