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Oct 22, 2020 · Once the word "spook" was linked to blackness, it wasn't long before it became a recognizable — if second-tier — slur. NPR has a lot more fascinating details on the shifting usage and meaning...
Jul 29, 2023 · When airmen returned from their posts with the nickname, white Americans caught wind of the name and began linking the term "spook" to blackness, thus resulting in the word transitioning into a racial slur and its derogatory use.
Oct 22, 2020 · When airmen returned from their posts with the nickname, white Americans caught wind of the name and began linking the term "spook" to blackness, thus resulting in the word transitioning into a...
Oct 6, 2023 · Once the word "spook" was linked to race, it wasn't long before it became a recognizable slur. Sociolinguist Renee Blake told NPR that the word "spook" isn't used too often in modern times, but there are a few recent examples tying it to racial implications.
Oct 24, 2017 · But as many of us know, it's also, sometimes, a racial slur for black people. One of our Ask Code Switch readers wrote in to ask about the etiquette of using words like spook and spooky.
Nov 29, 2021 · Spooky. The term "spook" — used sometimes to refer to a ghost, spy, or something that's strange and frightening (often used during Halloween) — has a history of being an anti-Black slur when ...
Oct 24, 2017 · Scared, fine. Frightened, sure. But spooked? This week, we dive into the racial history behind one of Halloween's most fraught descriptors.
Aug 8, 2018 · Leah Donnella of the race and identity reporting team Code Switch wrote last year that "spook" has history as an anti-black slur, at least when used in the context of race. Could a different...
Oct 28, 2019 · But in the era after World War II, it also became a slur for black people. An Ask Code Switch reader wrote in 2017 to ask us about the appropriate use of "spook" and "spooky," so we dove into...
Sep 30, 2010 · The term "spook" is an ethnic slur for African Americans, albeit one that was less widely used compared to decades past. Yet, for many shoppers of Target stores, the term remains hurtful...
