Niggerhead

Niggerhead
For other uses, see Niggerhead (disambiguation).

In several English-speaking countries, Niggerhead or nigger head is a former name for several things thought to resemble a black person's head.[1][2]

The term was once widely used for all sorts of things, including products such as soap and chewing tobacco, but most often for geographic features such as hills and rocks and geological objects (usually geodes).[3][4] In the U.S., more than a hundred "Niggerheads", and other place names now considered racially offensive, were changed in 1962 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, but many local names remained unchanged.[5]

Places

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"Niggerhead" is or was part of the name of:

  • Nigger Head, an island in North Queensland, Australia[6]
  • Niggerhead hunting camp, the former name of a hunting camp of Texas governor Rick Perry, renamed to "North Camp Pasture".[5]

References

  1. ^ Koch, Harold; Hercus, Luise (2009). Aboriginal Placenames: Naming and Re-Naming the Australian Landscape. Canberra: ANU E Press. p. 200. ISBN 9781921666087. http://books.google.com/books?id=HyHh-OrnRGoC&pg=PA199&dq=Niggerhead&hl=en&ei=eFfFTuv9AtH82gWP_KmmBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-preview-link&resnum=9&ved=0CFYQuwUwCA#v=onepage&q=Niggerhead&f=false. 
  2. ^ Whitney, William Dwight; Smith, Benjamin Eli (1911). The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia. The Century co. p. 4335. http://books.google.com/books?id=dhTpAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA4335&dq=Niggerhead&hl=en&ei=81rFToe5EvO42gWepMDoDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBzgo#v=onepage&q=Niggerhead&f=false. 
  3. ^ Mordoh, Alice (1989). The Old Traditional Way of Life. Indiana University Folklore Institute: Trickster Press. pp. 99. ISBN 0-915305-02-X. 
  4. ^ Wallace, Samuel (1878). The American Journal of Science and Arts VolXV. New Haven. pp. 366. 
  5. ^ a b McCrummen, Stephanie (2 October 2011). "At Rick Perry’s Texas hunting spot, camp’s old racially charged name lingered". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/rick-perry-familys-hunting-camp-still-known-to-many-by-old-racially-charged-name/2011/10/01/gIQAOhY5DL_story.html. Retrieved 2 October 2011. 
  6. ^ "Nigger Head". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government. http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/gazd01?rec=145413. 

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