niggerization
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The usually systematic act of dehumanizing people, especially black people.
Offensive; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "First, there was urgent need for indentured labour, then the need to keep this labour force permanent; the denial of education at first, and later such facilities were made available but on the condition of proselytization and indoctrination, deculturization, dehumanization and niggerization."
- "The basic goals of niggerization were to promote white greed and hatred […]"
- "What are the conditions under which black people will straighten their backs? How do you shake the niggerization out of black people?"
- "Niggerization is a process; a degenerating progression used on anyone not just blacks."
- "The reply was to call the republicans the party of "taxation and niggerization," as J. Sterling Morton named them in the Nebraska City News."
- "The United States Government, under Jewry, is committed to the increasing judaization and niggerization of our entire society."
Etymology
From nigger + -ization. First use of the sense meaning dehumanization appears c. 1969 in the San Francisco Chronicle.