Mr. Kennedy talked about his book, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, published by Pantheon Books. The book chronicles the hi… read more Mr. Kennedy talked about his book ...

In other words, you'll see "nigger" used throughout the essay. We understand that the word is upsetting, so we wanted to offer people a chance to opt out now After each incident, after the ...

"Them" being niggers. I have no qualm about using the word nigger. It is a word. It is in the English lexicon, and no amount of political correctness, no amputation into "the n-word"—as if by ...

That Jim. Now, there’s a nigger for you. Argued over ever since he first appeared, in Mark Twain’s 1884 masterpiece, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Nigger Jim is as dark and ...

Updated January 6, 2011, 3:57 PM I live in a city where I probably hear the word “nigger” 50 times a day from people of all colors and ages, though primarily from young people on public ...

In the two decades since he published his book “Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word,” Randall Kennedy has witnessed the persistence of the n-word as “an oft-heard feature of the ...

Defining racism as who does or does not say “nigger,” for instance, boils bigotry down to mere language rather than realizing it is a more silent and comprehensive web of oppression.

Seriously people, I love this argument put forth by stupid white folks who somehow clamor to say nigger and have black people smile, and even stupider black folks who claim that my use of nigger ...