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tom
1. entire male feline.
2. male turkey.
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Hurston adapted these strategies in her own writing to channel aggression indirectly through verbal play; Deborah Plant notes that the "patterns of behavior recognizable in Hurston's life and work--silence, shamming, tomming, signifying, masking, and posturing--are all patterns of behavior exhibited in archetypal African American trickster figures like John, High John de Conquer, and Jack" (45).
The Zombie in/as the text: Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse by Emery, Amy Fass / African American Review
The dining car waiters and Pullman porters knew it too, and they faked their Uncle Tomming to get bigger tips.
Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black ... by Threadcraft, Shatema / Black Issues Book Review
That tomming nigger didn't raise me, Darryl cut it off.
Nigger in the Window by Wright, David / African American Review
 
 
 
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