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| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Nigger Randall Kennedy, 2008-12-18 Randall Kennedy takes on not just a word, but our laws, attitudes, and culture with bracing courage and intelligence—with a range of reference that extends from the Jim Crow south to Chris Rock routines and the O. J. Simpson trial. 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? |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: The N Word Jabari Asim, 2008-08-04 A renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word. The N Word reveals how the term “nigger” has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America over the four hundred years since it was first spoken on our shores. Jabari Asim pinpoints Thomas Jefferson as the source of our enduring image of the “nigger.” In a seminal but now obscure essay, Jefferson marshaled a welter of pseudoscience to define the stereotype of a shiftless child-man with huge appetites and stunted self-control. Asim reveals how nineteenth-century “science” then colluded with popular culture to amplify this slander. What began as false generalizations became institutionalized in every corner of our society: the arts and sciences, sports, the law, and on the streets. Asim’s conclusion is as original as his premise. He argues that even when uttered with the opposite intent by hipsters and hip-hop icons, the slur helps keep blacks at the bottom of America’s socioeconomic ladder. But Asim also proves there is a place for the word in the mouths and on the pens of those who truly understand its twisted history—from Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle to Mos Def. Only when we know its legacy can we loosen this slur’s grip on our national psyche. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Say It Loud! Randall Kennedy, 2021-09-07 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A collection of provocative essays exploring the key social justice issues of our time—from George Floyd to antiracism to inequality and the Supreme Court. Kennedy is among the most incisive American commentators on race (The New York Times). Informed by sharpness of observation and often courting controversy, deep fellow feeling, decency, and wit, Say It Loud! includes: The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril • Isabel Wilkerson, the Election of 2020, and Racial Caste • The Princeton Ultimatum: Antiracism Gone Awry • The Constitutional Roots of “Birtherism” • Inequality and the Supreme Court • “Nigger”: The Strange Career Continues • Frederick Douglass: Everyone’s Hero • Remembering Thurgood Marshall • Why Clarence Thomas Ought to Be Ostracized • The Politics of Black Respectability • Policing Racial Solidarity In each essay, Kennedy is mindful of complexity, ambivalence, and paradox, and he is always stirring and enlightening. Say It Loud! is a wide-ranging summa of Randall Kennedy’s thought on the realities and imaginaries of race in America. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: For Discrimination Randall Kennedy, 2013-09-03 The definitive reckoning with Affirmative Action, one of America’s most explosively contentious and divisive issues—from “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race and the law.”—The Washington Post “A clear-eyed take on America’s battle over affirmative action and diversity.... [Kennedy] goes straight at the issue with fearlessness and a certain cheekiness.” —Los Angeles Times “Compelling.... Powerful.” —Wall Street Journal What precisely is affirmative action, and why is it fiercely championed by some and just as fiercely denounced by others? Does it signify a boon or a stigma? Or is it simply reverse discrimination? What are its benefits and costs to American society? What are the exact indicia determining who should or should not be accorded affirmative action? When should affirmative action end, if it must? Randall Kennedy gives us a concise and deeply personal overview of the policy, refusing to shy away from the myriad complexities of an issue that continues to bedevil American race relations. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Nigger Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte, 2019-06-11 Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory’s million-copy-plus bestselling memoir—now in trade paperback for the first time. “Powerful and ugly and beautiful...a moving story of a man who deeply wants a world without malice and hate and is doing something about it.”—The New York Times Fifty-five years ago, in 1964, an incredibly honest and revealing memoir by one of the America's best-loved comedians and activists, Dick Gregory, was published. With a shocking title and breathtaking writing, Dick Gregory defined a genre and changed the way race was discussed in America. Telling stories that range from his hardscrabble childhood in St. Louis to his pioneering early days as a comedian to his indefatigable activism alongside Medgar Evers and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Gregory's memoir riveted readers in the sixties. In the years and decades to come, the stories and lessons became more relevant than ever, and the book attained the status of a classic. The book has sold over a million copies and become core text about race relations and civil rights, continuing to inspire readers everywhere with Dick Gregory's incredible story about triumphing over racism and poverty to become an American legend. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Boogaloo Arthur Kempton, 2005 No further information has been provided for this title. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Class Matters Steve Fraser, 2018-03-20 A uniquely personal yet deeply informed exploration of the hidden history of class in American life From the decks of the Mayflower straight through to Donald Trump’s “American carnage,” class has always played a role in American life. In this remarkable work, Steve Fraser twines our nation’s past with his own family’s history, deftly illustrating how class matters precisely because Americans work so hard to pretend it doesn’t. He examines six signposts of American history—the settlements at Plymouth and Jamestown; the ratification of the Constitution; the Statue of Liberty; the cowboy; the “kitchen debate” between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev; and Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech—to explore just how pervasively class has shaped our national conversation. With a historian’s intellectual command and a riveting narrative voice, Fraser interweaves these examples with his own past—including his false arrest on charges of planning to blow up the Liberty Bell during the Civil Rights era—to tell a story both urgent and timeless. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: The Red Door Charles Todd, 2010 In this riveting novel by a New York Times-bestselling author, Inspector Ian Rutledge must solve a series of mysteries: Who is the woman who dies behind the Red Door? And what does she see before she dies? |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins Mark Twain, 1894 |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Death by Comb Camari Carter, 2015-12-26 Death by Comb is Camari Carter's debut collection of poetry and prose centered around the trials and triumphs of black womanhood, the fight to normalize the beauty of black hair, and tales of humanity at its most fragile, broken, and glorious. Death by Comb commands the heart to open and the soul to evoke emotion through works that explore her beliefs when encountering life-altering events. This book is an essential read. Death by Comb, the debut collection of poetry by Camari Carter is a tour de force of wit, brevity, and lyrical grace. At once arresting and beautifully tender, Carter's poems run the gamut of human experience, never shying away from the darker fringes of the beating heart. Tragic, angry, and bristling with beauty, Death by Comb is ultimately a work of redemption that speaks to the light, wavering in us all. - Dennis Cruz, Author of Moth Wing Tea |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Furious Cool David Henry, Joe Henry, 2014-01-01 Provides a rare glimpse into the life of an outrageously human, fearlessly black, openly angry and profanely outspoken comedic genius whose humble beginnings as the child of a prostitute helped shaped him into one of the most influential and outstanding performers of our time. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Die, Nigger, Die! Jamil Al-Amin, 2002 This explosive book, which was first published in 1969 and has long been unavailable, tells the story of the making of a revolutionary. But it is much more than a personal history--it is a call to arms, an urgent message to the black community to be the vanguard force in the struggle of oppressed people. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: The Hollywood Jim Crow Maryann Erigha, 2019-02-05 The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which revealed, among many other things, that a powerful Hollywood insider didn’t believe that Denzel Washington could “open” a western genre film, provide glaring evidence that the opportunities for people of color in Hollywood are limited. In The Hollywood Jim Crow, Maryann Erigha tells the story of inequality, looking at the practices and biases that limit the production and circulation of movies directed by racial minorities. She examines over 1,300 contemporary films, specifically focusing on directors, to show the key elements at work in maintaining “the Hollywood Jim Crow.” Unlike the Jim Crow era where ideas about innate racial inferiority and superiority were the grounds for segregation, Hollywood’s version tries to use economic and cultural explanations to justify the underrepresentation and stigmatization of Black filmmakers. Erigha exposes the key elements at work in maintaining Hollywood’s racial hierarchy, namely the relationship between genre and race, the ghettoization of Black directors to black films, and how Blackness is perceived by the Hollywood producers and studios who decide what gets made and who gets to make it. Erigha questions the notion that increased representation of African Americans behind the camera is the sole answer to the racial inequality gap. Instead, she suggests focusing on the obstacles to integration for African American film directors. Hollywood movies have an expansive reach and exert tremendous power in the national and global production, distribution, and exhibition of popular culture. The Hollywood Jim Crow fully dissects the racial inequality embedded in this industry, looking at alternative ways for African Americans to find success in Hollywood and suggesting how they can band together to forge their own career paths. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Language, Identity, and Stereotype Among Southeast Asian American Youth Angela Reyes, 2017-09-25 This book—an ethnographic and discourse analytic study of an after-school video-making project for 1.5- and second-generation Southeast Asian American teenagers—explores the relationships among stereotype, identity, and ethnicity that emerge in this informal educational setting. Working from a unique theoretical foundation that combines linguistic anthropology, Asian American studies, and education, and using rigorous linguistic anthropological tools to closely examine video- and audio- recorded interactions gathered during the video-making project (in which teen participants learned the skills for creating their own video and adult staff learned to respect and value the local knowledge of youth), the author builds a compelling link between micro-level uses of language and macro-level discourses of identity, race, ethnicity, and culture. In this study of the ways in which teens draw on and play with circulating stereotypes of the self and the other, Reyes uniquely illustrates how individuals can reappropriate stereotypes of their ethnic group as a resource to position themselves and others in interactionally meaningful ways, to accomplish new social actions, and to assign new meanings to stereotypes. This is an important book for academics and students in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis, and applied linguistics with an interest in issues of youth, race, and ethnicity, and/or educational settings, and will also be of interest to readers in the fields of education, Asian American studies, social psychology, and sociology. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: In the Belly of the Beast Jack Henry Abbott, 1991-01-02 A visionary book in the repertoire of prison literature. When Normal Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, he received a letter from Jack Henry Abbott, a convict, in which Abbott offered to educate him in the realities of life in a maximum security prison. This book organizes Abbott's by now classic letters to Mailer, which evoke his infernal vision of the prison nightmare. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Otto Neurath Nancy Cartwright, 1996-02 An international team of four authors, led by distinguished philosopher of science, Nancy Cartwright, and leading scholar of the Vienna Circle, Thomas E. Uebel, have produced this lucid and elegant study of a much-neglected figure. The book, which depicts Neurath's science in the political, economic and intellectual milieu in which it was practised, is divided into three sections: Neurath's biographical background and the socio-political context of his economic ideas; the development of his theory of science; and his legacy as illustrated by his contemporaneous involvement in academic and political debates. Coinciding with the renewal of interest in logical positivism, this is a timely publication which will redress a current imbalance in the history and philosophy of science, as well as making a major contribution to our understanding of the intellectual life of Austro-Germany in the inter-war years. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Race, Crime, and the Law Randall Kennedy, 2012-02-22 An admirable, courageous, and meticulously fair and honest book” (New York Times Book Review) in which “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race (The Washington Post) takes on a highly complex issue in a way that no one has before. This book should be a standard for all law students.—Boston Globe In this groundbreaking, powerfully reasoned, lucid work that is certain to provoke controversy, Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy takes on a highly complex issue in a way that no one has before. Kennedy uncovers the long-standing failure of the justice system to protect blacks from criminals, probing allegations that blacks are victimized on a widespread basis by racially discriminatory prosecutions and punishments, but he also engages the debate over the wisdom and legality of using racial criteria in jury selection. He analyzes the responses of the legal system to accusations that appeals to racial prejudice have rendered trials unfair, and examines the idea that, under certain circumstances, members of one race are statistically more likely to be involved in crime than members of another. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: The Nigger of the Narcissus Joseph Conrad, 1919 |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Savage Mind to Savage Machine Ginger Nolan, 2021-01-26 An examination of how concepts of the savage facilitated technological approaches to modernist design Attempting to derive aesthetic systems from natural structures of human cognition, designers looked toward the savage mind--a way of thinking they associated with a racialized subaltern. In Savage Mind to Savage Machine, Ginger Nolan uncovers an enduring relationship between the savage and the development of technology and its wide-ranging impact on society, including in the fields of architecture and urbanism, the industrial arts, and digital design. Nolan focuses on the relationship between the applied arts and the structuralist social sciences, proposing that the late-nineteenth-century rise of Freudian psychology, ethnology, and structuralist linguistics offered innovations and new opportunities in studying human cognition. She looks at institutions ranging from the Public Industrial Arts School of Philadelphia and the Weimar Bauhaus to the MIT Media Lab and the Centre Mondial Informatique, revealing a persistent theme of twentieth-century design: to supplant language with more subliminal, aesthetic modes of communication, thereby inculcating a deep intimacy between human habit and new technologies of production, communication, and consumption. This book's ultimate critique is of the development of the ergonomics of the spirit--the design of the human cognitive apparatus in relation to new aesthetic technologies. Nolan sees these ergonomics as a means of depoliticizing societies through aesthetic technologies intended to seamlessly integrate humans into the programs of capitalist modernity. Revising key modernist design narratives, Savage Mind to Savage Machine provides a deep historical foundation for understanding our contemporary world. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: The Evidence of Things Not Seen James Baldwin, 2023-01-17 Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the crimes. Because there was only evidence to convict Williams for the murders of two men, the children's cases were closed, offering no justice to the families or the country. Baldwin's incisive analysis implicates the failures of integration as the guilt party, arguing, There could be no more devastating proof of this assault than the slaughter of the children. As Stacey Abrams writes in her foreword, The humanity of black children, of black men and women, of black lives, has ever been a conundrum for America. Forty years on, Baldwin's writing reminds us that we have never resolved the core query: Do black lives matter? Unequivocally, the moral answer is yes, but James Baldwin refuses such rhetorical comfort. In this, his last book, by excavating American race relations Baldwin exposes the hard-to-face ingrained issues and demands that we all reckon with them. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: A Treatise on the Intellectual Character and Civil and Political Condition of the Colored People of the U. States Hosea Easton, 1837 |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Fade Elliott Lewis, 2006 Interweaves the personal memoirs of the author with the stories of dozens of other biracial Americans who would challenge contemporary beliefs about race, in an account that cites a growing number of biracial American citizens and addresses such topics as affirmative action, trans-racial adoption, and interracial sexual relations. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: The Salt-cellars Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1889 |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America Mayukh Sen, 2021-11-16 An NPR Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors’ Choice pick Wall Street Journal’s Who Read What: Favorite Books of 2021 Longlisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Observer Food Monthly’s 50 Things We Love in the World of Food Right Now Named a best book for the holidays by Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Oprah’s O Quarterly, Globe & Mail, and the Food Network Named a best food book of 2021 by the Los Angeles Times, KCRW, WBUR’s Here & Now One of The Millions’ Most Anticipated Books of 2021 America’s modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who’s really behind America’s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched portraits of figures including Mexican-born Elena Zelayeta, a blind chef; Marcella Hazan, the deity of Italian cuisine; and Norma Shirley, a champion of Jamaican dishes. In imaginative, lively prose, Mayukh Sen—a queer, brown child of immigrants—reconstructs the lives of these women in vivid and empathetic detail, daring to ask why some were famous in their own time, but not in ours, and why others shine brightly even today. Weaving together histories of food, immigration, and gender, Taste Makers will challenge the way readers look at what’s on their plate—and the women whose labor, overlooked for so long, makes those meals possible. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: The Nigger Factory Gil Scott-Heron, 2012-12-04 The scathing second novel by the legendary poet, musician and Godfather of Rap is a work of “biting social satire” (Daily Express). Originally published in 1972, Gil Scott-Heron’s striking novel The Nigger Factory is a powerful parable of the way in which human beings are conditioned to think, drawing inspiration from Scott-Heron’s own experiences as a student in the late 1960’s and early 70’s. Earl Thomas, student body president at Sutton University, is in a difficult position: struggling with the fact that even a historically black college could be part of a system that still privileges whites, he’s also threatened by his fellow students, members of radical activist group MJUMBE. Claiming the time has come for revolution, not reform, the leaders of MJUMBE are poised not only to bring Earl down personally, but also to instigate larger scale acts of violence. An electrifying novel, The Nigger Factory is a penetrating examination of the different forms of resistance and the motivations behind them, and a major document of an era of black thought. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: World on Fire Amy Chua, 2004-01-06 The reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this revelatory investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting free market democracy. Chua shows how in non-Western countries around the globe, free markets have concentrated starkly disproportionate wealth in the hands of a resented ethnic minority. These “market-dominant minorities” – Chinese in Southeast Asia, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America and South Africa, Indians in East Africa, Lebanese in West Africa, Jews in post-communist Russia – become objects of violent hatred. At the same time, democracy empowers the impoverished majority, unleashing ethnic demagoguery, confiscation, and sometimes genocidal revenge. She also argues that the United States has become the world’s most visible market-dominant minority, a fact that helps explain the rising tide of anti-Americanism around the world. Chua is a friend of globalization, but she urges us to find ways to spread its benefits and curb its most destructive aspects. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Holy Sh*t Melissa Mohr, 2013-05-30 A humorous, trenchant and fascinating examination of how Western culture's taboo words have evolved over the millennia |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: How Strange a Season Megan Mayhew Bergman, 2022-03-29 “Dazzling.” —The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice “Richly satisfying.” —The Wall Street Journal “These are stories you want to live in…a collection perfectly suited for our moment.” —Booklist (starred review) A collection of stories “so beautifully crafted they feel like tiny worlds unto themselves” (Los Angeles Times) about women experiencing all life’s beauty and challenges, from award-winning writer Megan Mayhew Bergman. A recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with rare flowers to establish control over a small world and attempt to heal her broken heart. A competitive swimmer negotiates over which days she will fulfill her wifely duties, and which days she will keep for herself. A peach farmer wonders if her orchard will survive a drought. And generations of a family in South Carolina struggle with fidelity and their cruel past, some clinging to old ways and others painfully carving new paths. In this “closely observed” (The New Yorker) collection, Megan Mayhew Bergman portrays women who wrestle with problematic inheritances: a modern glass house on a treacherous California cliff, a water-starved ranch, and an abandoned plantation on a river near Charleston. “Bergman’s stories are so emotionally rich that they serve as portals into distinct interior worlds...this collection is distinct and vivid...As singular as it is atmospheric” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Nigger Randall Kennedy, 2002 Nigger is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history. In this book, the author traces how the word has been used and by whom, while analyzing the controversies to which it has given rise. The author explores such topics as how nigger should be defined and whether blacks have a right to use nigger while others do not. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad Levi Coffin, 1880 |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Without Sanctuary James Allen, 2000 |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Strong Inside Andrew Maraniss, 2024-03-15 New York Times Best Seller 2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition 2015 Lillian Smith Book Award 2015 AAUP Books Committee Outstanding Title When Strong Inside was first published ten years ago, no one could have predicted the impact the book would have on Vanderbilt University, Nashville, and communities across the nation. What began as a biography of Perry Wallace—the first African American basketball player in the Southeastern Conference (SEC)—became a catalyst for meaningful change and reconciliation between Wallace and the city that had rejected him. In this tenth-anniversary edition, scholars of race and sports Louis Moore and Derrick E. White provide a new foreword that places the story in the context of the study of sports and society, and author Andrew Maraniss adds a concluding chapter filling readers in on how events unfolded between Strong Inside’s publication in 2014 and Perry Wallace’s death in 2017 and exploring Wallace’s continuing legacy. Wallace entered kindergarten the year that Brown v. Board of Education upended “separate but equal.” As a twelve-year-old, he sneaked downtown to watch the sit-ins at Nashville’s lunch counters. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Wallace entered high school, and later saw the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts. On March 19, 1966, his Pearl High School basketball team won Tennessee’s first integrated state tournament—the same day Adolph Rupp’s all-white Kentucky Wildcats lost to the all-Black Texas Western Miners in an iconic NCAA title game. The world seemed to be opening up at just the right time, and when Vanderbilt recruited him, Wallace courageously accepted the assignment to desegregate the SEC. His experiences on campus and in the hostile gymnasiums of the Deep South turned out to be nothing like he ever imagined. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: You Never Get It Back Cara Blue Adams, 2021-12-15 The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructed glimpses of the life of Kate, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in the countryside of Vermont and her twenties and thirties in the northeast, southwest, and South in pursuit of a vocation, first as a research scientist and later as a writer. Place is a palpable presence: Boston in winter, Maine in summer, Virginia’s lush hillsides, the open New Mexico sky. Along the way, we meet Kate’s difficult bohemian mother and younger sister, her privileged college roommate, and the various men Kate dates as she struggles to define what she wants from the world on her own terms. Wryly funny and shot through with surprising flashes of anger, these smart, dreamy, searching stories show us a young woman grappling with social class, gender, ambition, violence, and the distance between longing and having. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Bük #13 Richard Wright, 2005 |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Black Gold of the Sun Ekow Eshun, 2007-12-18 At the age of thirty-three, Ekow Eshun—born in London to African-born parents—travels to Ghana in search of his roots. He goes from Accra, Ghana’s cosmopolitan capital city, to the storied slave forts of Elmina, and on to the historic warrior kingdom of Asante. During his journey, Eshun uncovers a long-held secret about his lineage that will compel him to question everything he knows about himself and where he comes from. From the London suburbs of his childhood to the twenty-first century African metropolis, Eshun’s is a moving chronicle of one man’s search for home, and of the pleasures and pitfalls of fashioning an identity in these vibrant contemporary worlds. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner) James McBride, 2013-08-20 Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, the region a battlefield between anti and pro slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an arguement between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town with Brown, who believes Henry is a girl. Over the next months, Henry conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. He finds himeself with Brown at the historic raid on Harper's Ferry, one of the catalysts for the civil war. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Nigger Randall Kennedy, 2002 To be ignorant of the meanings and effects of nigger, says Kennedy, is to render oneself vulnerable to all manner of peril. This book addresses that concern.--BOOK JACKET. |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: WORKBOOK for Brene Brown's Atlas of the Heart White Press, 2022-01-04 Workbook For Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience. HOW TO USE THIS WORKBOOK FOR ENHANCED APPLICATION Atlas of The Heart by Brené Brown is an incredible compilation of not just Brene Brown's research findings, but an integration of research and data points from the world's top thought leaders on the human social/emotional experience. The book is laid out as an atlas, as we are all adventurers and travelers through our emotional world. The book itself is so beautiful--incredible illustrations, glossy pages, brilliant colors, and helpful graphics to help the reader better understand complex ideas. This WORKBOOK For Atlas of the Heart Will Help you and Your Loved Ones navigate through life's ups & downs of emotions, and the writing is very clear and easy to understand. Highly recommend! |
| nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word: Forbidden Words Keith Allan, Kate Burridge, 2006-10-05 Many words and expressions are viewed as 'taboo', such as those used to describe sex, our bodies and their functions, and those used to insult other people. This 2006 book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. It looks at the ways we use language to be polite or impolite, politically correct or offensive, depending on whether we are 'sweet-talking', 'straight-talking' or being deliberately rude. Using a range of colourful examples, it shows how we use language playfully and figuratively in order to swear, to insult, and also to be politically correct, and what our motivations are for doing so. It goes on to examine the differences between institutionalized censorship and the ways individuals censor their own language. Lively and revealing, Forbidden Words will fascinate anyone who is interested in how and why we use and avoid taboos in daily conversation. |
The N-word 是不是一个白人不能说、黑人整天说的词？这种现象 …
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黑人算不算侮辱性称呼？ - 知乎
Nigger为什么是对黑人的侮辱性词汇？ 最早这句词来源于拉丁语，“nig”，本意为“黑色”，但后来专门指代当时阿拉伯人畜养的黑奴。 到目前为止尚算历史问题，毕竟阿拉伯人不忌口，黑人白 …
nigga是个怎么样性质的词？ - 知乎
"nigga" = nigger = 黑鬼 = 外人骂黑人最难听、歧视性最强的话，外人对黑人当然千万用不得。 虽然美国社会下层的年轻黑人彼此之间用这个称呼很常见，但是黑人白领之间起码当着外人绝不 …
黑人讨厌“Nigga”这个词为什么他们的rap里会经常用？ - 知乎
这段话是写给一个白人或是所有不理解黑人文化的人听的，其实nigga这个词本身就是有罪恶包含在里面的。nigger本来只是黑人的称呼而已，到了奴隶交易时代被其他种族变成了针对和憎恨非 …
nigger这个词的使用后果是否被过度的严重化？ - 知乎
nigger这个词吧，来源于拉丁文的niger，本意是黑色的。 主要是奴隶制时代白人老爷们一直管黑人叫nigger，所以这个词在黑人看来是歧视词。 现在奴隶制废除了，换个新叫法无可厚非。 就 …
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A Plague Has Descended Upon Our Nation and that Plague is The Nigger Welcome to Chimpout - A Plague Has Descended Upon Our Nation and that plague is The Nigger and Muslims. The …
Ben Crump nigger files lawsuits against FBI, CIA, US Gov
Attorney Ben Crump announced the filing of a $100 million lawsuit against the FBI, CIA and the New York Police Department for the assassination of Malcolm X. Crump said the suit, filed by …
The N-word 是不是一个白人不能说、黑人整天说的词？这种现象 …
nigger 以前就是这样，是个人人都说的，Mark Twain 的小说了成天 nigger 这个 nigger 那个的。你可以说是种族偏见在那里，但整个社会对此无感，不认为是贬义。后来等人觉得这是贬义了， …
黑人算不算侮辱性称呼？ - 知乎
Nigger为什么是对黑人的侮辱性词汇？ 最早这句词来源于拉丁语，“nig”，本意为“黑色”，但后来专门指代当时阿拉伯人畜养的黑奴。 到目前为止尚算历史问题，毕竟阿拉伯人不忌口，黑人白 …
nigga是个怎么样性质的词？ - 知乎
"nigga" = nigger = 黑鬼 = 外人骂黑人最难听、歧视性最强的话，外人对黑人当然千万用不得。 虽然美国社会下层的年轻黑人彼此之间用这个称呼很常见，但是黑人白领之间起码当着外人绝不 …
黑人讨厌“Nigga”这个词为什么他们的rap里会经常用？ - 知乎
这段话是写给一个白人或是所有不理解黑人文化的人听的，其实nigga这个词本身就是有罪恶包含在里面的。nigger本来只是黑人的称呼而已，到了奴隶交易时代被其他种族变成了针对和憎恨非 …
nigger这个词的使用后果是否被过度的严重化？ - 知乎
nigger这个词吧，来源于拉丁文的niger，本意是黑色的。 主要是奴隶制时代白人老爷们一直管黑人叫nigger，所以这个词在黑人看来是歧视词。 现在奴隶制废除了，换个新叫法无可厚非。 就 …
Nigger caught stealing $100K bike from bike shop - chimpout.org
A Plague Has Descended Upon Our Nation and that Plague is The Nigger Welcome to Chimpout - A Plague Has Descended Upon Our Nation and that plague is The Nigger and Muslims. The …
Nigger Deadpool 3 - chimpout.org
OK, so now that fat nigger bitch Aretha Franklin is good, we need a new deadpool. I'm going with nigger David Dinkins, former NYC mayor. Post your choices here.-----Aretha Franklin Kofi …
如何看待美国教授因说中文「内个」，被称冒犯黑人而遭到停课处 …
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DEI Nigger CEO sinks QVC - chimpout.org
A Plague Has Descended Upon Our Nation and that Plague is The Nigger Welcome to Chimpout - A Plague Has Descended Upon Our Nation and that plague is The Nigger and Muslims. The …
Ben Crump nigger files lawsuits against FBI, CIA, US Gov
Attorney Ben Crump announced the filing of a $100 million lawsuit against the FBI, CIA and the New York Police Department for the assassination of Malcolm X. Crump said the suit, filed by …
