单词 | niggerati |
释义 | niggeratin. Now historical. With plural or (occasionally) singular agreement. (An informal name for) a group of African-American writers who flourished during the Harlem Renaissance (see Harlem Renaissance n. at Harlem n. Additions); (in extended use) any black literary or society elite. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > specific schools of writers Cockney school1817 sensitivism1891 Félibrige1902 Bloomsbury1910 Squirearchy1930 niggerati1932 New Wave1968 Oulipo1975 1932 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 20 Apr. 4/3 Harlem has fomented its own intelligentsia. Along Lenox Avenue impolite sneerers call it the niggerati. 1940 L. Hughes Big Sea ii. 238 With his bitter sense of humor, he [sc. Wallace Thurman] called the Harlem literati, the ‘niggerati’. Of this ‘niggerati’, Zora Neale Hurston was certainly the most amusing. 1987 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Apr. 410/4 In 1936, when the ‘niggerati’ were no longer fashionable, she published their work. 2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) vii. 153 Could she really not see beyond her pumped-up little world? ‘The niggerati ain't the only bunch that's saying something, you know,’ I growled. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1932 |
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