Wigger (ethnophaulism)

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Sacha Baron Cohen as Ali G (as an example of a "wigger") gives a speech on class day at Harvard University, 2004.

Wigger (also Wigga ) is a colloquial, derogatory term for a white man who imitates the behavior, expression and clothing style of black people , especially the Afro-American subculture in the USA . The term is an English portmanteau word from wannabe or white (“wannabe” or “white”) and nigger .

An early literary preoccupation with the phenomenon of the wigger can be found in Norman Mailer's essay The White Negro (1957), in which he describes a group of young whites from the 1920s to 1940s who liked jazz and swing so much that they became black culture than their own assumptions.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nell Bernstein: "IMO IMO IMO IMO", Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers , 5th Edition, p. 607
  2. ^ Christian Lorentzen: Norman Mailer's Hipster Theory: Whatever Became of the White Negro? , More Intelligent Life.com, December 31, 2007, accessed November 13, 2012

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