deniggerization
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.
Noun
- 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.
- 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. - 2010, David Hilliard, The...
- At one point he called his campaign the "deniggerization” of North Carolina. - 2013, Howard E. Covington, Jr., Henry Frye: North Carolina's First African American Chief Justice, page 109:
- 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...
- The act or process of freeing someone or something from black people or their influence.
- "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. - 1912, Evan Rayland Chesterman, Things Mundane, page 89:
Origin
From de- + niggerization.