Niggerati

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Niggerati is another term for the black intelligentsia. It was used to describe the black authors and intellectuals that made up the Harlem Renaissance. The etymology seems to be a combination of a racial epithet for African Americans and literati. The word was reportedly coined by Zora Neale Hurston, author of "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

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Journal of Modern Literature, ‘“Queen of the Niggerati’ and the Nile: The Isis-Osiris Myth in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Tina Barr, Summer 2002, Vol. 25, No. 3-4, Pages 101-113.