Deniggerize

Quick meaning: Deniggerize is a verb meaning (transitive, sometimes offensive) To raise (a black person, etc.) above the traditional negative racist stereotypes.

Meaning

(transitive, sometimes offensive) To raise (a black person, etc.) above the traditional negative racist stereotypes.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, sometimes offensive) To free from black people or their influence.

Example Sentences

A broad spectrum of African-Americans have used education to deniggerize themselves […]

In some areas black schools were integrated only after insulting efforts to 'deniggerize' the school were carried out (replacement of all toilet seats, fumigation of the school, etc.

Included in Killens's attempt to change or deniggerize the world was a continual verbal assault on literary, media, and educational establishments relative to their collectively abysmal record of promoting positive Black images.

But Al had accused Holly of going beyond the wishing to live the delusion that she had escaped the trap of blackness and had become an adored equal in a racist white world that considered her deniggerized and no longer tainted […]

Word Forms

• deniggerizes
• deniggerizing
• deniggerized
• deniggerise

Antonyms for deniggerize

Common opposites include niggerize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deniggerise, denigrate, negrify, demonify, undignify, deracialize.

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