Etymology

niggerization

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Today it means: The usually systematic act of dehumanizing people, especially black people. Full definition →

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The story

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.