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niggerati en · PROPN

Etymology

Blend of nigger + literati.

Meanings

1. (plural, plural-only) The group of young African-American artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.
   • Using the language of acceptance, members of the niggerati began reimagining the lived experiences and social realities of Black people and their African heritage by retelling generational narratives employing a present day context. 2018, Tammie Jenkins, “From Harlem to Haiti: A Niggerati Renaissance in Caribbean Negritude”, in Celucien L. Joseph et al., editors, Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa, →ISBN, page 144:
   • […] 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:
   • 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:

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