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The N Word

Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why

The N Word( )
Author: Asim, Jabari
ISBN:978-0-618-19717-0
Publication Date:Mar 2007
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $26.00
Book Description:

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. 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...
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Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Discrimination
Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.25 x 0.88 Inches
Book Weight:0.882 Pounds



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