Citations:Oreo

English citations of Oreo and Oreo cookie

black person with culture and values of a white person

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• 1971, Iceberg Slim, The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, Holloway House:

  She's a pure Oreo. You know, like the cookie, black outside and white inside.

• 1971 November 13, “The Blockbuster”, in All in the Family, season 2, episode 8, spoken by Lionel Jefferson and Archie Bunker (Michael Evans and Carroll O'Connor):

  Lionel: Yeah, I know him. He's what we call an Oreo cookie.
  Archie: An Oreo cookie?
  Lionel: Yeah! You know, black on the outside and white on the inside.

• 1991 June 11, Alan Peshkin, The Color of Strangers, The Color of Friends, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 189:

  She is sensitive to the distinction because she is accused of wanting to be white and runs the risk of being labeled an Oreo. They are the black-outside-white-inside persons who behave, says Regina, as if they are ashamed of being black […]

• 1997, Philip Herbst, The Color of Words, page 172:

  oreo cookie, derogatory term from the 1960s, from the trade name for the cookies consisting of two chocolate biscuits sandwiching a white creamy center. Oreo is used for a black person — black on the outside white on the inside.

• 1998, Susan T. Fiske, Daniel Todd Gilbert, and Gardner Lindzey, The Handbook of Social Psychology, volume 2, page 379:

  other subtypes (Uncle Tom, Oreo cookie) might be salient in other contexts.

• 2008, James Sullivan, The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America‎^[1], New York: Gotham Books, →ISBN:

  You don't have to be like an Oreo cookie, brother

• 2009 September 29, Byron Pitts, Step Out on Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life's Challenges, →ISBN, page 75:

  What an odd sight in East Baltimore in 1974: a black boy and a white boy running together. “What do we have here? A cracker boy and an Oreo.”

• 2011, Na'ilah Nasir, Racialized Identities, page 74:

  Being an Oreo means being black “on the outside” and white “on the inside,” like an Oreo cookie.