Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy

Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

Randall Kennedy

208 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history race funny reflective slow-paced
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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 co...

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