niggerization en · NOUN
Etymology
From nigger + -ization. First use of the sense meaning dehumanization appears c. 1969 in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Meanings
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(ethnic, no-plural, offensive, slur, uncountable, usually) The usually systematic act of dehumanizing people, especially black people.
The basic goals of niggerization were to promote white greed and hatred […]
2008, David Hilliard, The Black Panther Party: service to the people programs: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:Niggerization is a process; a degenerating progression used on anyone not just blacks.
2012, K. L. Stubblefield, American Reprobate, page 137:What are the conditions under which black people will straighten their backs? How do you shake the niggerization out of black people?
2009, Cornel West, Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom:
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(no-plural, offensive, uncountable, usually) The act or process of exposing or subjecting to black people or their influence.
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:this inference provides the bully pulpit from which Helms exhorts whites to "vote for me. 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: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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| niggerisation | alternative | lexicographic |