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What (who) is Uncle Tom - definition

FICTIONAL CHARACTER

Uncle tom; Uncle Tomism

Uncle Tom

¦ noun derogatory, chiefly N. Amer. a black man considered to be excessively obedient or servile to white people.

Origin

1920s: from the name of the hero of H. B. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).

Uncle Tom

Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. The character was seen by many readers as a ground-breaking humanistic portrayal of a slave, one who uses nonresistance and gives his life to protect others who have escaped from slavery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom

Uncle Tom

(Uncle Toms)

In the past, some black people used Uncle Tom to refer to a black man when they disapproved of him because he was too respectful or friendly towards white people. This use could cause offence.

To the radical blacks of the Sixties, he was an Uncle Tom.

N-COUNT [disapproval]

Wikipedia

Uncle Tom

Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The character was seen by many readers as a ground-breaking humanistic portrayal of a slave, one who uses nonresistance and gives his life to protect others who have escaped from slavery. However, the character also came to be seen as inexplicably kind to white slaveholders, especially based on his portrayal in pro-compassion dramatizations. This led to the use of Uncle Tom – sometimes shortened to just a Tom – as a derogatory epithet for an exceedingly subservient person or house negro, particularly one aware of their own lower-class racial status.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle Tom

Examples of use of Uncle Tom

1. Mike Miller Jr. (D–Calvert) referred to him as an "Uncle Tom" in 2001.

2. The King kids were soon affectionately calling him "Uncle Tom." A lot happened that Sunday.

3. Steele also has accused Democrats _ but not Cardin himself _ of calling Steele an Uncle Tom.

4. Naturally, Badawis belief in a type of Islam both acceptable to and supportive of Western society made him an Uncle Tom character to many imams.

5. We can‘t have Uncle Tom Cobley and all carrying out the role of professional officers." PC Jon Seal, 25, a former bouncer, is behind the scheme.