niggerhood

English

Etymology 1

nigger +‎ -hood

Noun

niggerhood (usually uncountable, plural niggerhoods)

1. (offensive) The state or period of being a nigger.

   Synonym: niggerdom

   • 1972, George E Kent, Blackness and the adventure of Western culture:

     But this time, black literature will be pressed to meet also the cry that is abroad for images of a positive niggerhood.

   • 2001, Steve Yarbrough, Visible spirits:

     He still believed that folks who held a fortune could rise above niggerhood.

   • Quoted in: 2001, Lynda Koolish, African American Writers: Portraits and Visions (page 12)

     During Black History Month, to put a class of toothless urchins in touch with our disparate niggerhoods, Ms. Murphy assigned us to make family trees.

   • 2014, Scott F. Parker, Eminem and Rap, Poetry, Race: Essays, page 161:

     The New School rap performer aspired to a heroic badness by embracing an antiheroic niggerhood.

Etymology 2

Blend of nigger +‎ neighborhood

Noun

niggerhood (plural niggerhoods)

1. (ethnic slur) A neighborhood of primarily African-American residents.
   • 1998, Patricia Cornwell, Southern Cross:

     He had grown up in the niggerhood. Even now on some calls, white complainants asked him to go around to the back door.

   • 2009, Susan Calhoun, Freeway Close, page 211:

     The next freeway entrance was Vernon. He'd drive up there and find it. If he didn't run across a decent location on the way, he'd just have to vacate the niggerhood and do it somewhere else.

   • Quoted in: 2020, Martina Althoff, Bernd Dollinger, Holger Schmidt, Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment (page 155)

     We need a modern White version of that. They go into niggerhoods that border Human areas and patrol. Protect the Human encampments from the invading Morlocks. Do it legally, and call the police to actually grab the criminal n*gs, but be out there in force watching & filming these things.