Nigger (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Randall Kennedy
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Current affairs, language, and law
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, Law and jurisprudence, Linguistics
- Subjects: Discrimination, Language or languages, United States or Americans, Politics, Twenty-first century, Law or legislation, Speech, English language, Hatred
Randall Kennedy’s book Nigger invites readers to reconsider “the N-word,” its meanings, and its appropriate uses. The book sets out to challenge Americans’ oftentimes absolutist views on what constitutes proper conduct in speaking about race. With its evenhanded rather than polemical mode of sober exposition, Kennedy’s work aims to articulate a new centrist vision of race in America. This new vision reflects an unusual mix of attitudes and styles of argumentation that attempt to dispense with the political imperatives of orthodox liberalism and conservatism in favor of...
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