niggerhood

plural niggerhoods

1. offensiveuncountableusuallyThe state or period of being a nigger.

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

   2001, Steve Yarbrough, Visible spirits

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   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.

   1853, James Henry Skene, Anadol - The Last Home of the Faithful, page 3

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

   1972, George E Kent, Blackness and the adventure of Western culture

   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.

   Quoted in: 2001, Lynda Koolish, African American Writers: Portraits and Visions (page 12)

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

   2014, Scott F. Parker, Eminem and Rap, Poetry, Race: Essays, page 161

   Synonyms: niggerdom

plural niggerhoods

1. ethnicoffensiveslangslurA neighborhood of primarily African-American residents.

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

   1998, Patricia Cornwell, Southern Cross

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   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.

   2009, Susan Calhoun, Freeway Close, page 211

   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.

   2020, Bernd Dollinger, Holger Schmidt, Martina Althoff (editors), Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment, page 155