Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Randall Kennedy
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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.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Randall KennedyPublisher: VintagePublished: 01/14/2003ISBN: 9780375713712Pages: 208Weight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.03h x 5.21w x 0.57dReview Citations: Entertainment Weekly 01/17/2003 pg. 82Kliatt 07/01/2003 pg. 42Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 69661 / Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome WordReading Level: 11.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 8
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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
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9780375713712
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Randall Kennedy
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/14/2003
ISBN: 9780375713712
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.21w x 0.57d
Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 01/17/2003 pg. 82
Kliatt 07/01/2003 pg. 42
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 69661 / Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Reading Level: 11.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 8
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Randall Kennedy
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/14/2003
ISBN: 9780375713712
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.21w x 0.57d
Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 01/17/2003 pg. 82
Kliatt 07/01/2003 pg. 42
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 69661 / Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Reading Level: 11.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 8
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Randall Kennedy
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/14/2003
ISBN: 9780375713712
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.21w x 0.57d
Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 01/17/2003 pg. 82
Kliatt 07/01/2003 pg. 42
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 69661 / Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Reading Level: 11.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 8
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Randall Kennedy
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/14/2003
ISBN: 9780375713712
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.21w x 0.57d
Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 01/17/2003 pg. 82
Kliatt 07/01/2003 pg. 42
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 69661 / Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Reading Level: 11.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 8
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