yellow black—(U.S. sl., may sound offensive) said of a lightskinned Black American (also: high yellow black):
- It has always been somewhat bothersome for me as a so-called “high-yellow” black American when people approach me about my ancestry.
yellow nigger—(U.S. sl., taboo) an offensive name for an East Asian:
- He recalled that he was denounced as a “yellow nigger” when he took part in civil-rights marches in the 1960s and early 1970s.