brass ankle

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Noun

brass ankle (plural brass ankles)

(Southern US) A person whose racial heritage is regarded as primarily white, but with a small degree of known or suspected non-white ancestry.[1] A manifestation of the American “one-drop rule” of racial categorization.
- 1937, Wright, Richardson Little, “Ⅸ”, in Revels in Jamaica, 1682–1838‎, Binghamton, New York: Vail-Ballou Press, OCLC 503921725, OL OL157761A, Maroon Fun, page 232:
  Moreover, the Maroons also practiced the diversions of polygamy. Their women, being a mixture of negro and native Indian, possessed a defiant beauty, not unlike that of an equivalent racial mixture, the “Brass Ankle” girls at Charleston. The men were tall and handsome and well made, and had a wild eye.

References

Parler, Mary Celestia (1930) , “Word-list from Wedgefield, South Carolina”, in Dialect Notes, volume Ⅵ, New Haven, Connecticut: The American Dialect Society, OCLC 1009149186, Part Ⅱ, 1930, page 78: “brass ankle, n. A person who passes for white, but who is suspected of having “a streak down his back”. (q.v.)”

[1] Parler, Mary Celestia (1930) , “Word-list from Wedgefield, South Carolina”, in Dialect Notes, volume Ⅵ, New Haven, Connecticut: The American Dialect Society, OCLC 1009149186, Part Ⅱ, 1930, page 78: “brass ankle, n. A person who passes for white, but who is suspected of having “a streak down his back”. (q.v.)”

单词	brass ankle
释义	brass ankle English Noun brass ankle (plural brass ankles) (Southern US) A person whose racial heritage is regarded as primarily white, but with a small degree of known or suspected non-white ancestry.[1] A manifestation of the American “one-drop rule” of racial categorization. 1937, Wright, Richardson Little, “Ⅸ”, in Revels in Jamaica, 1682–1838‎, Binghamton, New York: Vail-Ballou Press, OCLC 503921725, OL OL157761A, Maroon Fun, page 232: Moreover, the Maroons also practiced the diversions of polygamy. Their women, being a mixture of negro and native Indian, possessed a defiant beauty, not unlike that of an equivalent racial mixture, the “Brass Ankle” girls at Charleston. The men were tall and handsome and well made, and had a wild eye. See also Melungeon Mestee Métis mixed-race multiheritage touch of the tar brush References Parler, Mary Celestia (1930) , “Word-list from Wedgefield, South Carolina”, in Dialect Notes, volume Ⅵ, New Haven, Connecticut: The American Dialect Society, OCLC 1009149186, Part Ⅱ, 1930, page 78: “brass ankle, n. A person who passes for white, but who is suspected of having “a streak down his back”. (q.v.)”
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brass ankle

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