Niggerati

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.