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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word By Randall Kennedy. New York: Pantheon, 2002, 227 pages Reviewed by J. L. A. Garcia I recall William F. Buckley, Jr., on his old television show, inter- viewing Dick Gregory. After intro- ducing the black comedian and so- cial activist with the usual tributes
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.
the term nigger. As Randall Kennedy demonstrated in his widely discussed book, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word,5 there is a long history of employment discrimination cases involving that term. In fact, Kennedy's book elucidates the prevalence of the slur in lawsuits of all
word's negative, derogatory content relative to others in comparison (for example, 'chink'). Some theorists have an even stronger intuition that the word 'nigger' expresses unspeakably bad content; meaning that is so strong that it derogates its intended targets on every occasion of use.
In Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Randall Kennedy explores the history of and practical responses to a term that some in the USA see as a uniquely strong and damaging insult (p 22).
In nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Randall Kennedy observes that it is often claimed that 'nigger is the superlative racial epithet: the most hurtful, the most fearsome, the most dangerous, the most noxious'.
generations of racial tyranny,”5 the word can also have a benign meaning when spoken between two people of color and long-time friends, as in this case.6 (AA 11; 90:8-12, 97:13-99:6, 104:5-21, 134:7-12.) 1 Randall Kennedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (Knopf Doubleday Pub. Group, 2002).
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word call for students and teachers to wrestle with this slur. Is an educational setting a safe space in which to articulate the word? How might performances change depending on the racial identities of students and educators? In such scenarios, wise reasoning demands careful attention
• Dave Chappelle and Maya Angelou Discuss the N Word *until 8:35* • “Nigger” Author Randall Kennedy on how the N-Word became the Atomic Bomb of Slurs
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (New York, 2002). 3. For an elegant expression of this encouragement, see Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Contin-
8See Randall Kennedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (New York: Pantheon Books, 2002); Richard Delgado, “Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling,” Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review, vol.
epithet in American idiom - its title: Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word. Dray had been invited to speak in Atlanta on the basis of his own new book, an examination of the history of lynching in the U.S. - what he describes in his book as a "pariah of a sub-ject." It joins on the bookshelves a work by
Feb 25, 2021 · nedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word 4 n.2 (2002)). The word "n*gger" encapsulates the dehumanizing history of Black Americans from the first African captives that landed in Virginia to the emancipated slaves that navigated the Jim Crow South, through today. The word reinforces the racial
see randall kennedy, nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word 79 (2002) (quoting Charles R. Lawrence Ill, If He Hollers Let Him Go: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus, 1990 DUKE L.J. 431, 452).
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word - amazon.com WEBJan 14, 2003 · 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
From my bookshelf I pull down Randall Kennedy's book Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, and turn it so its cover faces Eric. "Nigger," in stark white type against a black background, is staring at him, staring at anyone who happens to be walking past the open door behind him. Over the next 30 minutes or so, Eric and I talk about ...
Author, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, 2002 Date/Time: Thursday, March 20 at 8 p.m. Location: STUDENT CENTER THEATER SONDRA AND DAVID S. MACK STUDENT CENTER NORTH CAMPUS LECTURE For Better or For Worse: The Strange Relationship Between African-Americans and the Federal Government During the 20th Century Speaker: Heather Parker
torical, political, and cultural history of the word nigger. Kennedy confounds students' expectations by ultimately siding against what he terms "eradi cationists" who are calling for the elimination of this word; rather, he argues that it can be a power ful and anti-racist word when used for some pur poses and in some contexts (such as Richard ...
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy offers etymology, examples of historical and present use, and atti-tudinal and behavioral characteristics commonly associated with the term. Derived from the Latin word for the color black, Nigger had become a familiar insult to
As African-American law professor Randall Kennedy recognizes (in Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Kennedy, 2003) and also writer Jabari Asim (in Asim (2007)) nigger cannot be eradicated from the English language. The eradicationist presupposes that the word nigger is itself a slur and its eradicationwill eliminate the
of when one is permitted to use the word "nigger "by Randall L. Kennedy NIGGER IS A KEY WORD in the lexicon of race relations and thus an important term in American politics. Cultural literacy demands knowledge of it. Indeed, nigger is such an important term that to be ignorant of its functions, connotations, effects, and even of the way it
Nigga-talk uses this "troublesome",8 word-a word Professor Randall Kennedy rightly calls the "nuclear bomb of racial epithets" in his 2002 book Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word 9 -in its
The word Kanake is a highly derogatory term that has been used since roughly the 1970s to refer to visibly non-German foreigners or presumed foreigners, especially Turks.1 Although still considered a slur, Kanake has been appro-
