>Usage notes >This term has historically been used in America to describe black people who were considered to be acting above "their place", and is considered

>Usage notes >This term has historically been used in America to describe black people who were considered to be acting above "their place", and is considered by some to have racist connotations when applied to black people and other people of color; sometimes, arrogant or presumptuous, invoking the same idea, are used as codewords for it.[3][4][5]