niggerize
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[edit]niggerize (third-person singular simple present niggerizes, present participle niggerizing, simple past and past participle niggerized)
- (transitive, ethnic slur, offensive) To subject to niggerization, (the act of dehumanizing black people, or other people in the manner of black people).
- 1971, Nicholas M. Regush, The Drug Addiction Business, page 126:
- It's difficult to view only the addict as "sick" when a "normal" society is rotting: with racial conflict, with increasing poverty, with a school system niggerizing potentially creative minds, with obscene military spending and war aggression […]
- 1973, Bartholomew Gill, Mark McGarrity, Lucky Shuffles, page 61:
- If you need to niggerize, go and get yourself a passel of spades. We ain't niggers.
- 1996, Charles Eric Lincoln, Coming Through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America, page 139:
- We cannot niggerize half the peoples of the world.
- 2022, VK Ogilvie, Niggers Sing Redemption Songs: Reggae, the Heart-Beat of a People:
- The destruction of the downtrodden, Black people is an ongoing melee, when White racists have continued to niggerize Black people with their racist laws, their racist customs and racist practices.
- (transitive, ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory) To subject or expose to black people or their influence.
- 1909, Walter Hines Page, The Southerner, page 328:
- Educated with Negroes, studying and living on a social equality with them; returning to his native State and seeking to niggerize the public schools; dismissed in disgrace;
- 1912, Don Marquis, Danny's Own Story, page 185:
- And if the Angle-Saxtons was to stand fur that, purty soon they would be sociable equality. And next the hull dern country would be niggerized
- 1992, The Liberty Bell - Volume 20, page 50:
- Dinkins appointed a white traitor as police commisioner who has announced his top priority is to niggerize the police department by hiring more savages.
- 2007, Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism, page 177:
- " […] to niggerize our very excellent institution,” ranted a segregationist member of St. Philip's congregation.
- (transitive, ethnic slur, offensive) To render someone or something to resemble the racist stereotype of a black person.
- 1975 August, Ebony, volume 30, number 10, page 124:
- Instead their humor simply mocked situations without explaining them and the performers niggerized their material to please white audiences.
- 1993, The Liberty Bell - Volume 21, page 60:
- But if the white population continues to diminish, and become more niggerized, a more niggerized Christ will also come into being.
- 2016, Paul Beatty, The Sellout:
- C'mon, Foy, do it right this time. I know you're only five, but niggerize the hell out of this one.
- (transitive, dated, now offensive) To treat (wood) with paraffin or coke-oven coal tar in order to increase its acid resistance.
- 1946, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Wood-Preservers' Association, page 261:
- Niggerized wood is used almost interchangeably with paraffin-treated wood for acid tanks.
- 1948, Proceedings of the National Annual Meeting - Forest Products Research Society, page 123:
- The "Asidbar" treatment referred to in the subject report appears to be a refinement of the so-called "Niggerizing" treatment which was in some use during the early part of the recent war.
- 1955, Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.), Wood Handbook, page 54:
- Coal tar is the preferred treating material and heartwood of bald cypress or southern yellow pine the preferred wood for niggerizing.