niggerization

English

Etymology

nigger +‎ -ization. First use of the sense meaning dehumanization appears c. 1969 in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Noun

niggerization (uncountable)

1. (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.

2. (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."

Synonyms

• niggeration

Antonyms

• deniggerization