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niggerati

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Blend of nigger +‎ literati

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niggerati pl (plural only)

  1. The group of young African-American artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.
    • 1977, Richard Miller, Bohemia: The Protoculture Then and Now[1], page 238:
      These niggerati are the conventional referent of “Harlem Renaissance.” In fact, the niggerati were but lily pads floating on the surface.
    • 1996, Keith Clark, “Baldwin, Communitas, and the Black Masculinist Tradition”, in Trudier Harris, editor, New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain, →ISBN, page 151:
      [] 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 []
    • 2018, Tammie Jenkins, “From Harlem to Haiti: A Niggerati Renaissance in Caribbean Negritude”, in Celucien L. Joseph et al., editors, Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa, →ISBN, page 144:
      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.

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