[Ads-l] Antedating of "Niggerati"

[Shapiro, Fred]

niggerati (OED 1932 [20 Apr.])

12 February 1932, New York (NY) Times, “Book Notes,” pg. 19, col. 8:
Walter Thurman, a Negro writer, tells of Harlem’s Negro artists, writers and musicians who gather at the super-Bohemian Nigeratti Manor, in his new book, “Infants of the Spring,” which Macauley published today. The people in the book are of “the lost generation among the Negroes,” the author believes, who are in revolt against the white public that expects from them the quaint, the morbid or the primitive, and are even more cut off from their own race.

NOTE:  This antedating is taken from Barry Popik's magnificent website barrypopik.com.

Fred Shapiro

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