Buckra

Buckra is a slang term primarily used by the Gullah people in the Southeast United States to describe a white man.[1]

It derives from Ibibio-Efik, mbakara ‘European, master’.[1]

"De nigger was de right arm of de buckra class. De buckra was de horn of plenty for de nigger. Both suffer in consequence of freedom."...(Moses Lyles, a former slave in South Carolina, speaking in the 1930s).[2] As clearly noted in this 1916 publication, there was also the white trash level of buckra, referred to by both Southern races as "poor buckras"...locally pronounced "po' buckras". [3]

In other languages
gollark: It wants something in terms of p and q, so just simplify it a bit.
gollark: Although I don't know why you can't long-divide it, p and q are just constants for the purposes of that.
gollark: That lets you work out a/b/c/d, which you can substitute back into (x-1)(ax^3+bx^2+cx+d).
gollark: So:2 = a (x^4 terms)p = b - a (x^3 terms)-6 = c - b (x^2 terms)q = d - c (x terms)6 = -d (constant terms)
gollark: So you can do `2x^4+ px^3 - 6x^2 + qx + 6 = ax^4 + (b-a)x^3 + (c-b)x^2 + (d-c)x - d`, and you know the coefficients on x^4 and so on should be equal.

See also
  • List of English words of African origin

References
  1. "Buckra". Lexico UK Dictionary. Oxford University Press.
  2. Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long, p. 214)
  3. Clinkscales, John George (1916). On the Old Plantation: Reminiscences of His Childhood. Band & White. pp. 11 & 33.
  4. Davis, Natalie Zemon (May 2009). "Creole languages and their uses: the example of colonial Suriname". Historical Research. 82 (216): 268–284. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.2009.00494.x.
  5. Bigley, John (2009). Jamaica - Montego Bay, Port Antonio and Ocho Rios. Hunter Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-1-58843-788-4.
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