Uncle Tom is a pejorative term for a black person who is perceived by others as behaving in a subservient manner to white authority figures, or as seeking ingratiation with them by way of unnecessary accommodation. The term comes from the title character of American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Critical and popular views of both the character and the novel have shifted over time, leading to the shift in the term's use.

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  • Uncle Tom is a pejorative term for a black person who is perceived by others as behaving in a subservient manner to white authority figures, or as seeking ingratiation with them by way of unnecessary accommodation. The term comes from the title character of American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Critical and popular views of both the character and the novel have shifted over time, leading to the shift in the term's use. In the novel the Uncle Tom character is a Christian martyr, morally superior to his white owners in an antebellum fiction whose subtext was an argument that the institution of slavery was immoral. Numerous adaptations altered the depiction substantially, often rendering him feeble, servile, or a race traitor. These adaptations, along with critical distaste for the original character's passivity, contributed to the strongly negative connotations of the name in modern popular use.
  • Als Onkel Tom (engl. uncle tom) werden abwertend Afro-Amerikaner bezeichnet, die sich freiwillig einer weißen Autoritätsperson unterordnen. Dieser Begriff stammt von der Titelfigur des Romans Onkel Toms Hütte (engl. Uncle Tom's Cabin) von Harriet Beecher Stowe, obwohl darüber gestritten wird, ob sich die Hauptperson selbst in einer solchen Weise verhält. Während der amerikanischen Bürgerrechtsbewegung wurde dieser Ausdruck oft für gemäßigte Bürgerrechtssprecher benutzt. Unter anderem wurden Booker T. Washington, von W. E. B. Du Bois und Martin Luther King von Malcolm X als Onkel Tom bezeichnet. Der Film Addio Onkel Tom spielt ebenfalls auf diese Begriffsnutzung an.
  • Uncle Tom is een in de Verenigde Staten gebruikte term voor een neger die probeert bij blanken een wit voetje te halen, of die zich anderszins onderdanig opstelt richting blanken. Deze term vindt zijn oorsprong bij een van de hoofdpersonages uit het boek De Negerhut van Oom Tom van Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  • Uncle Tom é um termo pejorativo usado para descrever um afro-americano que aparentemente age de uma forma subserviente às figuras de autoridade do americano branco, ou procurando a integração por meio de uma desnecessária acomodação. O termo "uncle Tom" deriva do personagem que deu o título ao romance de Harriet Beecher Stowe, A cabana do Pai Tomás, apesar a questão de se o próprio personagem é merecedor do termo pejorativo que lhe é atribuído ser alvo de debate. Stowe nunca tencionou que "Uncle Tom" fosse um personagem para escárnio. O sentido pejorativo do termo desenvolveu-se a partir do modo como as versões posteriores do personagem, despojado de sua força, foram retratadas em palco.
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  • Uncle Tom is a pejorative term for a black person who is perceived by others as behaving in a subservient manner to white authority figures, or as seeking ingratiation with them by way of unnecessary accommodation. The term comes from the title character of American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Critical and popular views of both the character and the novel have shifted over time, leading to the shift in the term's use.
  • Als Onkel Tom (engl. uncle tom) werden abwertend Afro-Amerikaner bezeichnet, die sich freiwillig einer weißen Autoritätsperson unterordnen. Dieser Begriff stammt von der Titelfigur des Romans Onkel Toms Hütte (engl. Uncle Tom's Cabin) von Harriet Beecher Stowe, obwohl darüber gestritten wird, ob sich die Hauptperson selbst in einer solchen Weise verhält. Während der amerikanischen Bürgerrechtsbewegung wurde dieser Ausdruck oft für gemäßigte Bürgerrechtssprecher benutzt.
  • Uncle Tom is een in de Verenigde Staten gebruikte term voor een neger die probeert bij blanken een wit voetje te halen, of die zich anderszins onderdanig opstelt richting blanken. Deze term vindt zijn oorsprong bij een van de hoofdpersonages uit het boek De Negerhut van Oom Tom van Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  • Uncle Tom é um termo pejorativo usado para descrever um afro-americano que aparentemente age de uma forma subserviente às figuras de autoridade do americano branco, ou procurando a integração por meio de uma desnecessária acomodação. O termo "uncle Tom" deriva do personagem que deu o título ao romance de Harriet Beecher Stowe, A cabana do Pai Tomás, apesar a questão de se o próprio personagem é merecedor do termo pejorativo que lhe é atribuído ser alvo de debate.
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