Talk:Niggerati

nominated for deletion
This article has been nominated for deletion. Two users have made very constructive suggestions about how to turn this into a good article. I am posting them here and hope that these users will elaborate:

Keep Standard terminology in the field. Besides the article cited in J.Modern Literature, the first 7 ghits yield two more good ones, one from Modern Language Review, another from [Washignton City Paper], It was introduced by the extremely important writer Zora Neale Hurston and consequently will be found in all discussions of her work or based on her writings. The nom and the first pile-on deletes must have never even thought to check Google. Whether it is used colloquially at the present time is irrelevant. DGG (talk) 23:34, 25 November 2008 (UTC)


 * This subject is, literally, encyclopaedic, in that it gets a two page entry in the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Cary D. Wintz, Paul Finkelman; Taylor &amp; Francis, 2004. 906–907. ISBN 9781579584580). It's also discussed in The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance and in the "From House Niggers to Niggerati" chapter of Asim's The N Word.  And those are just the top three books that came up on a Google Books search.  There are plenty of sources and plenty of scope for expansion to talk about the Niggerati, Niggerati Manor, and various closely related biographical and social issues.  This is a stub encyclopaedia article in need of refactoring and expansion.  Keep.  Uncle G (talk) 12:43, 26 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I hope DGG and UncleG will offer some more constructive suggestions for how to go about doing the research necessary to build this into a good article; then maybe some of our many volunteer editors will follow through! Slrubenstein  |  Talk 22:30, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * There is serious fear that this page will attract considerable vandalism so I have partically protected it but I hope real editors will use this page to do some real work! Slrubenstein  |  Talk 22:32, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * If the level of page protection in any way hampers work on improving the article I invite any admin to unprotect. Slrubenstein  |  Talk 18:20, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Added template:sections
I added the template sections. I would do this myself, but I am unfamiliar with the subject matter. Ikip (talk) 00:34, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Unprotection?
Can this talk page be unprotected now so that unregistered users can make comments? We can quickly restore protection if necessary. --TS 19:48, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * sure! Slrubenstein  |  Talk 09:06, 5 September 2009 (UTC)