niggerati

alternative Niggerati

1. pluralplural onlyThe group of young African-American artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.

   These niggerati are the conventional referent of “Harlem Renaissance.” In fact, the niggerati were but lily pads floating on the surface.

   1977, Richard Miller, Bohemia: The Protoculture Then and Now, page 238

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   […] his experiences in Paris during the 1950s and 1960s did not replicate the halcyon days of the Harlem Renaissance – there was no cohesive “niggerati” akin to the one Zora Neale Hurston wrote of during the 1920s […]

   1996, Keith Clark, “Baldwin, Communitas, and the Black Masculinist Tradition”, in Trudier Harris, editor, New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain, →ISBN, page 151

   Using the language of acceptance, members of the niggerati began reimagining the lived experiences and social realities of Black people and their African heritage by retelling generational narratives employing a present day context.

   2018, Tammie Jenkins, “From Harlem to Haiti: A Niggerati Renaissance in Caribbean Negritude”, in Celucien L. Joseph et al., editors, Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa, →ISBN, page 144

1. pluralplural onlyAlternative letter-case form of niggerati.