Meaning of deniggerization | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act or process of deniggerizing; the amelioration of the dehumanization resulting from institutionalized discrimination and negative stereotypes that have been put on blacks and other groups.
   offensive, uncountable
2. The act or process of freeing someone or something from black people or their influence.
   offensive, uncountable

Examples

“This awakening was the deniggerization of Black people—the process of turning scared, intimidated, helpless folk into bold, brave, hopeful people willing to live and die for Black freedom.”

“At one point he called his campaign the "deniggerization” of North Carolina.”

“In his own case, deniggerization began while he was serving time in Western Penitentiary. He read deeply in such writers as Shakespeare, James Baldwin, Mark Twain, and Dostoevsky, and they awakened in him a new sense of identity and the conviction that humans were made for greater things than he had known on the streets of Philadelphia.”

“This was a project of racial equality that included the deniggerization of Africana identities, the full recognition of the humanity of Africana peoples, and also of their cultural contributions to the shared problems of human ontogenesis.”

“"The angelic colored cook, —an ever brightening blessing,—has flown; […] And if it isn't, it ought to, for love and deniggerization some day must come to all.”

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