Niggerland

English

Etymology

From nigger +‎ -land.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɪɡəlænd/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɪɡəɹlænd/

Proper noun

Niggerland

(offensive, ethnic slur) Africa.
(offensive, ethnic slur) Any country in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- 2012 August 13, Jason Hurlburt, Cold Blood, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
  And, they didn't coin anti-Catholicism, or Meryl Streepesque Aryans, who attacked Kifeland, Kikeland, Niggerland, Guinealand, Gookland, Micland, Spicland, and other realms. Jack Henry Abbott wasn't Cheryl Crane or the Cuban waiter he […]
(offensive, ethnic slur) Any black-majority country or area.
- 1999, James Ellroy, Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A., Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, →ISBN, page 271:
  Mount Vernon Junior High, AKA "Mount Vermin,” AKA "Mau-Maunt Vernon”: Niggerland, U.S.A. Beware! Beware! Frequent homicides and race riots on campus. I was slated to attend John Burroughs Junior High , AKA “ J.B. ” I asked […]
- 2017 January 2, Jay Williams, The Oxford Handbook of Jack London, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 479:
  His South was all that remained below his equatorial line, but the eastern part of it he nicknamed Niggerland, while the western part, bordering on the Pacific Ocean, he called the Coast. (92) Barcas's map is different from one found in […]
- 2020 July 5, Kevin Maxwell, Forced Out: A Detective's Story of Prejudice and Resilience, Granta Books, →ISBN:
  Once, when I was walking along Myrtle Street to my house behind a much older white couple, I heard them describe Toxteth as 'Niggerland'. I had no idea how terrible a slur this was. As kids on the estate, we often repeated words we'd […]