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. Pronunciation en En-au-Oreo cookie.ogg AU Noun en slang idiomatic mildly pejorative A black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person en 1997 Philip Herbst The Color of Words 172 http://books.google.com/books?id=UiZQH5gHuggC&pg=PA172&dq=oreo+cookie+black+person&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ez7yTvzIE4ijiQLU8L3ODg&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAQ 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. en 1998 Susan T. Fiske; Daniel Todd Gilbert; Gardner Lindzey The handbook of social psychology 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=w27pSuHLnLYC&pg=PA379&dq=oreo+cookie+black+person&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ez7yTvzIE4ijiQLU8L3ODg&ved=0CGoQ6AEwCQ 379 other subtypes (Uncle Tom, Oreo cookie) might be salient in other contexts. en 2009 James Sullivan The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America http://books.google.com/books?id=D18t6_1rstwC&pg=PT80&dq=oreo+cookie+black+person&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ez7yTvzIE4ijiQLU8L3ODg&ved=0CGQQ6AEwCA link You don't have to be like an Oreo cookie, brother en slang sexual A threeway involving two black participants and one white participant between them en 2011 Wade Wright Jay, Jake and Jimmy 59 http://books.google.com/books?id=xYUVcPX2EiQC&pg=PA59&dq=oreo+cookie+black+person&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ez7yTvzIE4ijiQLU8L3ODg&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBA Jake and I did not know if it was going to be a white guy or a black guy, and I kind of think it might have turned out, to be a white guy. Jake, I think maybe we just completed the ole Oreo cookie thing! Don't you?” Synonyms en Oreo See also en Uncle Tom