Unnamed Negro Young Men
Character Key Number:
1318
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Young Men
Sort Name:
Unnamed Negro Young Men
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
In "A Point of Law" and again in Go Down, Moses, Lucas Beauchamp compares George Wilkins favorably as a son-in-law to "the other buck niggers" in his neighborhood (213; in the novel this phrase is revised to "nigger bucks," 34). By these offensive terms Lucas refers to other eligible young black males who live nearby. The racist stereotype that, for good reason, we now hear in those terms would not have been felt or meant by Lucas.