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deniggerize

verb

Etymology

From de- + niggerize.

  1. derived from niger
  2. derived from negro
  3. borrowed from nègre
  4. suffixed as niggerize — “nigger + ize”
  5. prefixed as deniggerize — “de + niggerize”

Definitions

  1. To raise (a black person, etc.) above the traditional negative racist stereotypes.

    • A broad spectrum of African-Americans have used education to deniggerize themselves […]
    • But Al had accused Holly of going beyond the wishing to live the delusion that she had escaped the trap of blackness and had become an adored equal in a racist white world that considered her deniggerized and no longer tainted […]
    • Included in Killens's attempt to change or deniggerize the world was a continual verbal assault on literary, media, and educational establishments relative to their collectively abysmal record of promoting positive Black images.

  2. To free from black people or their influence.

    • In some areas black schools were integrated only after insulting efforts to 'deniggerize' the school were carried out (replacement of all toilet seats, fumigation of the school, etc.

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Derived

deniggerization

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for deniggerize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA