... Thomas notes that before the sixteenth century the definition of black in English culture in The Oxford English Dictionary read: "Deeply stained with dirt; soiled, dirty, foul Having dark or deadly purposes, malignant; pertaining to or involving death, deadly; baneful, disastrous, sinister .Foul, iniquitous, atrocious, horrible, wicked .Indicating disgrace, censure, liability to punishment, etc."" (24). These European feelings of racial superiority and negativity ... been so cruel."" Northern cities also developed racial problems. Blacks were being forced to live in the worst areas of th...

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