Oreo cookie
English
Etymology
By analogy with the proprietary "Oreo Cookie" that is black on the outside and white on the inside, implying that certain black people are white at heart.
Noun
Oreo cookie (plural Oreo cookies)
- (slang, idiomatic, mildly pejorative) A black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person
- 1998, Susan T. Fiske, Daniel Todd Gilbert, Gardner Lindzey, The handbook of social psychology, Volume 2, page 379
- other subtypes (Uncle Tom, Oreo cookie) might be salient in other contexts.
- 2009, James Sullivan, The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America, link
- You don't have to be like an Oreo cookie, brother
- (slang, sexual) A threeway involving two black participants and one white participant between them
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