Meaning of niggerhood | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state or period of being a nigger.
   offensive, uncountable, usually
2. A neighborhood of primarily African-American residents.
   ethnic, offensive, slang, slur

Examples

“Slip-shod menials scowled cross-legged on the narrow poops, now pipe-filling automata in cloudy paletots and cloudier Tatar faces, now livery harem-slaves in all the pride of flat-nosed, thick-lipped, wooly niggerhood.”

“But this time, black literature will be pressed to meet also the cry that is abroad for images of a positive niggerhood.”

“He still believed that folks who held a fortune could rise above niggerhood.”

“During Black History Month, to put a class of toothless urchins in touch with our disparate niggerhoods, Ms. Murphy assigned us to make family trees.”

“The New School rap performer aspired to a heroic badness by embracing an antiheroic niggerhood.”

“He had grown up in the niggerhood. Even now on some calls, white complainants asked him to go around to the back door.”

“The next freeway entrance was Vernon. He'd drive up there and find it. If he didn't run across a decent location on the way, he'd just have to vacate the niggerhood and do it somewhere else.”

“We need a modern White version of that. They go into niggerhoods that border Human areas and patrol. Protect the Human encampments from the invading Morlocks. Do it legally, and call the police to actually grab the criminal n*gs, but be out there in force watching & filming these things.”

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