Meaning of deniggerize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To raise (a black person, etc.) above the traditional negative racist stereotypes.
   offensive, sometimes, transitive
2. To free from black people or their influence.
   offensive, sometimes, transitive

Examples

“A broad spectrum of African-Americans have used education to deniggerize themselves […]”

“But Al had accused Holly of going beyond the wishing to live the delusion that she had escaped the trap of blackness and had become an adored equal in a racist white world that considered her deniggerized and no longer tainted […]”

“Included in Killens's attempt to change or deniggerize the world was a continual verbal assault on literary, media, and educational establishments relative to their collectively abysmal record of promoting positive Black images.”

“In some areas black schools were integrated only after insulting efforts to 'deniggerize' the school were carried out (replacement of all toilet seats, fumigation of the school, etc.”

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