Meanings
- offensiveslanguncountableThe study of black people, especially when isolated as a problem group.
I thought your major was political science, not niggerology!"
2003, Eva Rutland, No Crystal Stair, →ISBN, page 3133 more examples
Josiah Nott, readying one of his broadsides for publication, wrote: "All the articles I have written on niggerology have been eagerly sought for at the South, and in the present excited state of the political world, I think the thing will go well.
1970, Sidney Fine, Gerald Saxon Brown, The American past: conflicting interpretations of great issuesMr. Martin could not imagine life without niggers, and since they were inevitable, he considered it a matter of common expedience to know what to expect of them. Hence, he had developed his own science of niggerology, which he used like an Etruscan bed, lopping off some here, stretching some there to achieve a common fit for all.
1996, Charles Eric Lincoln, Coming Through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America, →ISBN, page 30In the year of the Dred Scott decision, the bookselling concession at a Nott lecture offered one-stop shopping for anyone with an interest in niggerology.
2007, Jabari Asim, The N Word: Who Can Say It, who Shouldn't, and why, →ISBN, page 53 - derogatoryoffensiveslanguncountableA course on black studies at a school or university.
- uncountableThe life knowledge gained by growing up as a black person.
I specialize in the plight of my people or niggerology.
2007, MINISTER X, I Swear to Tell the Truth: So Help Me God, →ISBN, page 1912 more examples
I know you bout to go to college and all and think you smart, but remember, I grew up in the projects. I know how you think and how he thinks. I have a degree in niggerology.
2002, African American Review, page 81In 1971, a Thugs United newspaper described Carmouche as a “Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of the Streets, where he earned a bachelor's degree in niggerology and streetology” and a “a masters degree in common sinces [sic].
2007, Kent B. Germany, New Orleans After the Promises, →ISBN
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niggerology. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/niggerology
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