Citations:macaca

English citations of macaca

1. (rare, ethnic slur) A derogatory epithet.

perhaps a use, or perhaps a mention

2006 - "This fellow here, over here with the yellow shirt, macaca, or whatever his name is. He's with my opponent." - Senator George Allen

mentions, not uses

• 1997, France Winddance Twine, Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 70,

  While Miguel reported that in the past he had been called derogatory names such as macaca (monkey), he continued to frame his failure to win public office exclusively in terms of his socioeconomic status.

• 1999: Michael Hanchard, Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil, Duke University Press, →ISBN, pages 210-211,

  During the demonstration, people from the surrounding apartments said “Macaca”; they insulted Benedita. We did not win anything with this gesture.

• 2006 - "'The world is so volatile and so delicate,' Mukherjee said. 'You have to be careful what you say and how you say it. The U.S. is no longer black and white.' Asked what macaca means, Mukherjee said: 'What it means, I don't know. But it's going to cause him some grief.'" - Washtington Post, Allen Quip Provokes Outrage, Apology, Tim Craig and Michael D. Shear
• 2006 - "Republican Sen. George Allen of Virginia got some unwanted publicity when at a political rally he pointed to a tracker sent by rival James Webb's campaign and called the young man a "macaca" -- an African monkey and sometimes a racial slur." - Reuters, U.S. politicians caught on Internet candid cameras, Deborah Charles