mean white

noun

noun

US, Ethnic, Obsolete, Slur, Used by black slaves Synonym of poor white trash (“a white person of low social status”).

A mean white would be acutely reminded of his own shabby status upon encountering a slave like Northup, […]2019, William L. Andrews, Slavery and Class in the American South, page 186:

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