The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
by
Randall Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
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...