niggerati
niggerati proper noun: the group of young African-American artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.
Proper noun (1)
niggerati pl (plural only)
- The group of young African-American artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.
- These niggerati are the conventional referent of “Harlem Renaissance.” In fact, the niggerati were but lily pads floating on the surface.1977, Richard Miller, Bohemia: The Protoculture Then and Now, page 238
- […] his experiences in Paris during the 1950s and 1960s did not replicate the halcyon days of the Harlem Renaissance – there was no cohesive “niggerati” akin to the one Zora Neale Hurston wrote of during the 1920s […]1996, Keith Clark, “Baldwin, Communitas, and the Black Masculinist Tradition”, in Trudier Harris, editor, New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain, →ISBN, page 151
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Niggerati
Niggerati pl (plural only)
- Alternative letter-case form of niggerati.
Forms of niggerati
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Origin of niggerati
Blend of nigger + literati.
Questions about niggerati
- What does niggerati mean?
- Niggerati means the group of young African-American artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.
- What part of speech is niggerati?
- Niggerati is a proper noun.
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