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niggerati

name

Etymology

Blend of nigger + literati.

  1. borrowed from līterātī
  2. compounded as niggerati — “nigger + literati”

Definitions

  1. The group of young African-American artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.

    • These niggerati are the conventional referent of “Harlem Renaissance.” In fact, the niggerati were but lily pads floating on the surface.
    • […] 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 […]
    • 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.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of niggerati.

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