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niggerization

noun

Etymology

From nigger + -ization. First use of the sense meaning dehumanization appears c. 1969 in the San Francisco Chronicle.

  1. derived from niger
  2. derived from negro
  3. borrowed from nègre
  4. suffixed as niggerization — “nigger + ization”

Definitions

  1. The usually systematic act of dehumanizing people, especially black people.

    • The basic goals of niggerization were to promote white greed and hatred […]
    • What are the conditions under which black people will straighten their backs? How do you shake the niggerization out of black people?

  2. The act or process of exposing or subjecting to black people or their influence.

    • The reply was to call the republicans the party of "taxation and niggerization," as J. Sterling Morton named them in the Nebraska City News.
    • The United States Government, under Jewry, is committed to the increasing judaization and niggerization of our entire society.
    • this inference provides the bully pulpit from which Helms exhorts whites to "vote for me. I'll stop the Niggerization of white folk jobs."

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