Citations:Niggertown

English citations of Niggertown

1. (US, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An area mainly populated by black people.
   • 1987 [1984], James Ellroy, Because the Night, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 191:

     Johnny runs out of the theatre and hitchhikes to Ossining niggertown.

• 1922, William Livingston, The Independent, page 459:

  The only person in Niggertown who does understand ( or seems to understand ) him is Cissie Dildine , an octoroon girl who has also had some schooling away from Hooker's Bend , but is not thereby the better fitted for a Niggertown mating .

• 2022 January 6, Thomas Sigismund Stribling, Birthright, Good Press:

  Peter stood in the doorway, steadying himself by the jamb. The world still swayed from the blows he had received on the head. “What girl would you be willing for me to go with?” he asked in faint satire. “Heah in Niggertown?

• 1992 July 27, “Jet”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 32:

  Maps Niggertown Knoll, Fla., a Civil War-era shantytown and the nearby Niggertown Marsh recently were wiped off the face of maps of rural Highlands County in the south-central section of the state. County officials said they recently […]

• 2013 June 18, Susan Straight, The Gettin' Place, Hachette Books, →ISBN:

  Such a district as the old Niggertown must never be allowed in Tulsa again. Such a district is a cesspool of iniquity and sin, of filth and corruption. In this old Niggertown were a lot of bad niggers, and a bad nigger is about the […]

• 2008 August 4, Jabari Asim, The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why, HMH, →ISBN, page 126:

  'Yeah, let's go down to Niggertown, man.' You know, it was just a word. I didn't even think about it. 'I have to go to Niggertown, man.' Different times.” Annual recordings of lynchings declined to single-digit totals by the mid-1930s, […]

• 2007, Tony Trigilio, Associate Professor Tony Trigilio, Ph.D., Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 99:

  ... now- / Except for the souls / held prisoner in Niggertown / still pining for love of your tender white bodies O children of Wichita ! " Ginsberg's note to the poem explains " Niggertown " as " Area of Wichita between Hydraulic and […]

• 2018 May 11, Tom Dalzell, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English, Routledge, →ISBN, page 2013:

  niggertown noun a neighborhood with a large population of black people US, 1904 It's in Niggertown, on the radio alla time. I say, You know where is Niggertown? — Robert Gover, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, p.

• 1922, The Independent, page 459:

  The central figure is Peter Siner , a young mulatto , who returns to “ Hooker's Bend ” after four years at Harvard , eager to set up school among the ignorant dwellers in " Niggertown , ” the black quarter of the Bend .

• 1995, Numan V. Bartley, The New South, 1945-1980, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 108:

  In one sense , Niggertown or Colored Town or Black Bottom , or whatever name the local white terminology gave it , was simply an inchoate ghetto that lacked the social disorganization and density of the massive black communities in the […]

• 1991, Dorothy Abbott, Mississippi Writers: An Anthology, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 123:

  Before , we'd shot off toward the woods to the right of niggertown . I turned the bricks to the left ; I made us a very fine cannon carriage pointing toward niggertown . When Radcleve appeared , he had two pairs of binoculars around his […]

• 2007 April 1, Ross Thomas, The Fools in Town Are on Our Side, Minotaur Books, →ISBN:

  In Niggertown, the citizens strolled along the sidewalk and goodmawnined and lifted their hats to the patrolling police. And then they smiled broadly and used their hands to stifle their giggles.

• 2020 May 28, Lennon Gavan Lennon, Living Jim Crow: The Segregated Town in Mid-Century Southern Fiction, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN:

  To borrow the novel's discourse of the body: 'niggertown' is a limb starved of blood. Because no individual 'culprit' is found to be the father of McCracken's child, blackness itself is criminalised. McCracken's sexual encounter with a […]