Dictionary

niggerize en · VERB

Etymology

From nigger + -ize.

Meanings

1. (ethnic, offensive, slur, transitive) To subject to niggerization, (the act of dehumanizing black people, or other people in the manner of black people).
   • We cannot niggerize half the peoples of the world. 1996, Charles Eric Lincoln, Coming Through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America, page 139:
   • The destruction of the downtrodden, Black people is an ongoing melee, when White racists have continued to niggerize Black people with their racist laws, their racist customs and racist practices. 2022, VK Ogilvie, Niggers Sing Redemption Songs: Reggae, the Heart-Beat of a People:
   • It's difficult to view only the addict as "sick" when a "normal" society is rotting: with racial conflict, with increasing poverty, with a school system niggerizing potentially creative minds, with obscene military spending and war aggression […] 1971, Nicholas M. Regush, The Drug Addiction Business, page 126:
   • If you need to niggerize, go and get yourself a passel of spades. We ain't niggers. 1973, Bartholomew Gill, Mark McGarrity, Lucky Shuffles, page 61:
2. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur, transitive) To subject or expose to black people or their influence.
   • Dinkins appointed a white traitor as police commissioner who has announced his top priority is to niggerize the police department by hiring more savages. 1992, The Liberty Bell - Volume 20, page 50:
   • And if the Angle-Saxtons was to stand fur that, purty soon they would be sociable equality. And next the hull dern country would be niggerized 1912, Don Marquis, Danny's Own Story, page 185:
   • "[…] to niggerize our very excellent institution,” ranted a segregationist member of St. Philip's congregation. 2007, Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism, page 177:
   • Educated with Negroes, studying and living on a social equality with them; returning to his native State and seeking to niggerize the public schools; dismissed in disgrace; 1909, Walter Hines Page, The Southerner, page 328:
3. (ethnic, offensive, slur, transitive) To render someone or something to resemble the racist stereotype of a black person.
   • Instead their humor simply mocked situations without explaining them and the performers niggerized their material to please white audiences. 1975 August, Ebony, volume 30, number 10, page 124:
   • But if the white population continues to diminish, and become more niggerized, a more niggerized Christ will also come into being. 1993, The Liberty Bell - Volume 21, page 60:
   • C'mon, Foy, do it right this time. I know you're only five, but niggerize the hell out of this one. 2016, Paul Beatty, The Sellout:
4. (dated, offensive, transitive) To treat (wood) with paraffin or coke-oven coal tar in order to increase its acid resistance.
   • The "Asidbar" treatment referred to in the subject report appears to be a refinement of the so-called "Niggerizing" treatment which was in some use during the early part of the recent war. 1948, Proceedings of the National Annual Meeting - Forest Products Research Society, page 123:
   • Coal tar is the preferred treating material and heartwood of bald cypress or southern yellow pine the preferred wood for niggerizing. 1955, Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.), Wood Handbook, page 54:
   • Niggerized wood is used almost interchangeably with paraffin-treated wood for acid tanks. 1946, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Wood-Preservers' Association, page 261:

Forms

Antonyms

deniggerize

Deriveds

niggerization