Meanings
plural niggerologists
- offensiveAn individual who studies niggerology.
In 1861 the niggerologist Josiah Nott told a British newspaper that the possibility of manumission posed distressing problems for white Americans: […]
2008 August 4, Jabari Asim, The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why, HMH, →ISBN, page 862 more examples
In The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why, author Jabari Asim quotes British “niggerologist” Charles White who, in his 1799 anatomy studies, gushed: “That the PENIS of an African is larger than that of a European[…]
2010 06, Tom Burrell, Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 61Frederick Douglass' Paper provided an ideal forum for refuting the niggerologists and devising their own definitions and interpretations of race. Wilson initiated the debate. In naming himself Ethiop, he drew attention to his undiluted[…]
2011 January 1, Carla L. Peterson, Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-century New York City, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 218
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