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Nigger - The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
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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... read more

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0375421726
Page Count: 240

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