Niggerization

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The usually systematic act of dehumanizing people, especially black people. ethnic, no-plural, offensive, slur, uncountable, usually

    "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."

  2. 2
    The act or process of exposing or subjecting to black people or their influence. no-plural, offensive, uncountable, usually

    "The reply was to call the republicans the party of "taxation and niggerization," as J. Sterling Morton named them in the Nebraska City News."

Synonyms

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niggerationniggeration

Example

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"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."

Etymology

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

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