Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word - With a New Introduction by the Author Hardcover -
by Randall Kennedy
Featuring a new Introduction and Afterword by the author, this explosive bestseller has sparked a great deal of curiosity and controversy. In examining "the nuclear bomb of racial epithets, " distinguished legal scholar Kennedy has taken on not just a word, but American laws, attitudes and culture with bracing courage and intelligence.
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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 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? With a range of reference that extends from the Jim Crow south to Chris Rock routines and the O. J. Simpson trial, Kennedy takes on not just a word, but our laws, attitudes, and culture with bracing courage and intelligence.
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- Title Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word - With a New Introduction by the Author
- Author Randall Kennedy
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pantheon Books
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780593316528 / 0593316525
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.9 x 1.4 in (21.59 x 14.99 x 3.56 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Topical: Black History
- Library of Congress subjects Racism in language, Anecdotes
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.896
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