niggerization
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From nigger + -ization. First use of the sense meaning dehumanization appears c. 1969 in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Noun
[edit]niggerization (uncountable)
- (offensive, ethnic slur) The usually systematic act of dehumanizing people, especially black people.
- 1980, Piare Lal Sharma, India betrayed:
- 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.
- 2008, David Hilliard, The Black Panther Party: service to the people programs:
- The basic goals of niggerization were to promote white greed and hatred […]
- 2009, Cornel West, Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom:
- What are the conditions under which black people will straighten their backs? How do you shake the niggerization out of black people?
- 2012, K. L. Stubblefield, American Reprobate, page 137:
- Niggerization is a process; a degenerating progression used on anyone not just blacks.
- (offensive) The act or process of exposing or subjecting to black people or their influence.
- 1904, Addison Erwin Sheldon, Semi-centennial History of Nebraska, page 97:
- The reply was to call the republicans the party of "taxation and niggerization," as J. Sterling Morton named them in the Nebraska City News.
- 1977, The Liberty Bell - Volume 4, page 14:
- The United States Government, under Jewry, is committed to the increasing judaization and niggerization of our entire society.
- 2007, Ernest Dillard Sr., End Racism in the United States with a White Sword, page 47:
- this inference provides the bully pulpit from which Helms exhorts whites to "vote for me. I'll stop the Niggerization of white folk jobs."