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try on clothes in stores", recalls Gates. His mother retaliated by not buying clothes that she was not allowed to try on. He remembered hearing a white man deliberately calling his father by the wrong name: "'He knows my name, boy,' my father said after a long pause. 'He calls all colored people George.'" When Gates's cousin became the first black cheerleader at the local high school, she was not allowed to sit with the team and drink Coke from a glass, but had to stand at the counter drinking from a paper cup. Gates also wrote about his experiences in his 1995 book,
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610:"Is the word 'coloured' offensive?"
2006:American-Born Confused Desi (ABCD)
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590:"coloured | colored, adj. and n."
297:Census terms in the United States
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3098:Jewish-American princess (JAP)
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750:Malesky, Kee (30 March 2014).
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2377:English-speaking Welsh people
235:movement, as well as radical
684:The Public Opinion Quarterly
3408:Fresh off the boat / F.O.B.
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822:. Vol. 62, no. 2.
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725:Trigger, Bruce G. (1978).
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332:United Negro College Fund
135:A voyage to South America
120:Oxford English Dictionary
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2018:westernized South Asians
838:Colored People: A Memoir
309:Bureau of Colored Troops
291:Colored People: A Memoir
1772:westernized East Asians
1730:westernized East Asians
1115:Black American princess
930:Posel, Deborah (2001).
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301:In 1851, an article in
275:attention to skin color
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901:OxfordDictionaries.com
834:Gates, Henry Louis Jr.
812:Gates, Henry Louis Jr.
678:Smith, Tom W. (1992).
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221:Civil Rights Movement
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2361:Welsh-speaking elite
1411:Hillbilly / Hilljack
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816:"Growing Up Colored"
452:Free people of color
447:Critical race theory
316:United States Census
281:about growing up in
215:. However, the term
1847:westernized Chinese
956:on 8 November 2006.
885:. 12 November 2008.
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690:(4): 497, 499–502.
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405:Anglo-African term
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