Nigger
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Randall Kennedy

Nigger

The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

Page count: 188
Average rating: 3.5 based on 12 votes
Language: English

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Words used in the book
Prejudice
Discrimination
Racism
Oppression
Segregation
Slavery
Inequality
Subjugation
Hatred
Bigotry
Intolerance
Jim Crow
Lynching
Prejudice
Stereotype
Injustice
Inferiority
Exclusion
Extermination
Persecution
Harassment
Bias
Exploitation
Misrepresentation
Exclusion
Abuse
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Disenfranchisement

Description

Randall Kennedy takes on not just a word, but our laws, attitudes, and culture with bracing courage and intelligence--with a range of reference that extends from the Jim Crow south to Chris Rock routines and the O. J. Simpson trial.

It's "the nuclear bomb of racial epithets," a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many Black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment.

The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly argued book the distinguished legal scholar Randall Kennedy traces its origins, maps its multifarious connotations, and explores the controversies that rage around it.

Should Blacks be able to use nigger in ways forbidden to others? Should the law treat it as a provocation that reduces the culpability of those who respond to it violently? Should it cost a person his job, or a book like Huckleberry Finn its place on library shelves?

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