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

Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

Randall Kennedy

208 pages 2002

5 editions

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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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