Meanings
- ethnicoffensivesluruncountableThe quality of being niggerish.
Too many of us have escaped through the eye of the needle and when we look back we see only niggerishness, which spurs us to put even more distance between ourselves and our people.
1997, Dewayne Wickham, Thinking Black1 more example
I have continued in this vein by arguing that even when the black subject turns pathological, becomes the bad black, his antisociality, his niggerishness, once again does the important work of demonstrating that he is removed from the main currents of modern society […]
2007, Robert Reid-Pharr, Once you go Black: choice, desire, and the Black American intellectual, page 131
Origin
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