Definition of "niggerhood"

niggerhood¹

noun
usually uncountable, plural niggerhoods
1. (offensive) The state or period of being a nigger.
  Quotations
  But this time, black literature will be pressed to meet also the cry that is abroad for images of a positive niggerhood.
  1972, George E Kent, Blackness and the adventure of Western culture
  He still believed that folks who held a fortune could rise above niggerhood.
  2001, Steve Yarbrough, Visible spirits
  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.
  Quoted in: 2001, Lynda Koolish, African American Writers: Portraits and Visions (page 12)
  The New School rap performer aspired to a heroic badness by embracing an antiheroic niggerhood.
  2014, Scott F. Parker, Eminem and Rap, Poetry, Race: Essays, page 161

niggerhood²

noun
plural niggerhoods
1. (ethnic slur) A neighborhood of primarily African-American residents.
  Quotations
  He had grown up in the niggerhood. Even now on some calls, white complainants asked him to go around to the back door.
  1998, Patricia Cornwell, Southern Cross
  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.
  2009, Susan Calhoun, Freeway Close, page 211
  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.
  Quoted in: 2020, Martina Althoff, Bernd Dollinger, Holger Schmidt, Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment (page 155)