niggerization
niggerization noun: the usually systematic act of dehumanizing people, especially black people.
Noun
niggerization (usually uncountable, plural not attested)
- The usually systematic act of dehumanizing people, especially black people.
- First, there was urgent need for indentured labour, then the need to keep this labour force permanent; the denial of education at first, and later such facilities were made available but on the condition of proselytization and indoctrination, deculturization, dehumanization and niggerization.1980, Piare Lal Sharma, India betrayed
- The basic goals of niggerization were to promote white greed and hatred […]2008, David Hilliard, The Black Panther Party: service to the people programs
- The act or process of exposing or subjecting to black people or their influence.
- The reply was to call the republicans the party of "taxation and niggerization," as J. Sterling Morton named them in the Nebraska City News.1904, Addison Erwin Sheldon, Semi-centennial History of Nebraska, page 97
- The United States Government, under Jewry, is committed to the increasing judaization and niggerization of our entire society.1977, The Liberty Bell - Volume 4, page 14
Examples of niggerization in a sentence
- How do you shake the niggerization out of black people?2009, Cornel West, Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom:
- Niggerization is a process; a degenerating progression used on anyone not just blacks.2012, K. L. Stubblefield, American Reprobate, page 137:
- I'll stop the Niggerization of white folk jobs."2007, Ernest Dillard Sr., End Racism in the United States with a White Sword, page 47:
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Forms of niggerization
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Origin of niggerization
From nigger + -ization. First use of the sense meaning dehumanization appears c. 1969 in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Questions about niggerization
- What does niggerization mean?
- Niggerization means the usually systematic act of dehumanizing people, especially black people.
- How do you use niggerization in a sentence?
- How do you shake the niggerization out of black people?
- What part of speech is niggerization?
- Niggerization is a noun.
Words near niggerization in the dictionary
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