Deniggerizes vs Deniggerized - What's the difference?
deniggerizes | deniggerized |
(deniggerize)
To raise (a black person, etc.) above the traditional negative racist stereotypes.
* 1996 , Carl Upchurch, Convicted in the womb: one man's journey from prisoner to peacemaker :
* 2000 , Iceberg Slim, The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim , page 89:
* 2003 , Keith Gilyard, Liberation memories: the rhetoric and poetics of John Oliver Killens , page 140:
To free from black people or their influence.
* 2010 , Stuart Buck, Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation ,
As verbs the difference between deniggerizes and deniggerized
is that deniggerizes is (deniggerize) while deniggerized is (deniggerize).deniggerizes
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Verb
(head)deniggerize
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Verb
(deniggeriz)- A broad spectrum of African-Americans have used education to deniggerize themselves
- 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
- 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.
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- 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.
