“He had the handsomest wop kisser I ever saw” -Jean Genet “Thief’s Journal” p.185

What does wop kisser mean?

  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    There was no such thing as a visa during that time. Immigration documents did not really exist until 1924 and the slur was already in use by then.