negroとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈniɡɹoʊ/
  • (obsolete) IPA: /ˈnɪɡɹoʊ/
  • (Southern 米国発音, dated) IPA: /ˈnɪɡɹə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈniːɡɹəʊ/

形容詞

negro (not comparable)

1. (dated, now offensive) Relating to a black ethnicity.
   • 1963 April, “Anti-bias Coffee Klatsch: Windy City Interfaith Project Fights Bigotry with Coffee, Cookies and Conversation”, in Ebony, volume XVIII, number 6, Chicago, Ill.: Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, page 67:

     Recently, on a wintry Sunday, some 2,500 white Chicago area residents embarked on a strange safari across the city, determined to do what most of them had never done before—visit a Negro home. Eager to purge themselves of ignorance about the city's "other half," they were participants in Interracial Home Visit Day, a "Coffee Klatsch" co-sponsored by local Catholic, Jewish and Protestant groups in an effort to eliminate racial bigotry and hate.

2. (dated, now offensive) Black or dark brown in color.

使用する際の注意点

• As the primary term for persons of Black African ancestry during the 18th, 19th, and early and middle 20th century, negro is now considered less immediately offensive than various other slurs and more connected more subtle forms of racial prejudice. W. E. B. Du Bois in particular advocated strenuously for the use of capitalized Negro in preference to colored/coloured, which became less common by the 1920s, but in the United States the word negro now is considered acceptable only in polite historical contexts or in specific proper names such as the United Negro College Fund. Black and black (which replaced negro as part of the Black Power and black pride movements from 1966 onward) or the more recent African-American (from the 1980s) are the preferred alternatives, with neither being categorically preferred in all contexts. As a self-designation, negro was still preferred on average as late as 1968, while black became clearly more common by 1974. Usage in publications followed. See also discussion on this topic at Wikipedia.

関連する語

名詞

negro (plural negroes or negros)

1. (dated, now offensive) A person of black African ancestry.
   • 1867, Mayne Reid, Quadrupeds: what they are and where found, page 141:

     The negroes believe that its presence has a sanitary effect upon their cattle […]

   • 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 675:

     What Peter said was true but she hated to hear it from a negro and a family negro, too. Not to stand high in the opinion of one's servants was a humiliating a thing as could happen to a Southerner.

   • 2003, Benjamin Hawkins, Howard Thomas Foster, The Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796–1810, page 259:

     There were two negros who were guilty of thieving; he went and had them both shot, and gave notice that he would put all to death who kept disturbing the property of the white people, and kept confusion in their land.

   • 2010, Ryan Acheson, Chalk, page 68:

     His parents had always said that the area he grew up in had been a nice place to live before 'those Negros invaded'.

2. (archaic) A slave, especially one of African ancestry.
   • 1864, William Tecumseh Sherman, General William Tecumseh Sherman to the Mayor and Councilmen of Atlanta‎:

     We don't want your Negroes, or your horses, or your lands, or any thing you have, but we do want and will have a just obedience to the laws of the United States. That we will have, and if it involved the destruction of your improvements, we cannot help it.

使用する際の注意点

See above.

同意語

(noun):

• blackamoor

(adjective and noun):

• black, Black
• African-American (nonstandard, US)

上位語

(noun):

• colored
• colored person
• person of color

下位語

(adjective and noun):

• Afro-American
• African-American (in the proper sense)
• negress

派生語

参考

• barro negro
• mulatto
• octaroon
• quadroon

参照

アナグラム

• Egnor, Goren, Groen, Norge, Ogren, Rengo, Rogen, ergon, genro, goner, grone, ornge, reong