Mr. Kennedy talked about his book, [Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word], published by Pantheon Books. The book chronicles the history of the word from a neutral word in the 1600s to ...

White Nigger: The Struggles and Triumphs Growing up Bi-Racial in America. Book Release Date: October 12, 2017 (pre-orders started July 17) Format: Paperback, hardcover, eBooks and audio book.

“What would white people do without the nigger?” It’s a question that courses and bleeds through Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The First White President.” It’s never asked explicitly, but it ...

Like it or not, and you know, that’s another conversation, the word is part of our public and private lexicon, and the notion that contemporary readers of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are ...

“You’re an exceptional nigger Platt, but I fear no good will come from it.” — Master Ford, in 12 Years a Slave There is no doubt that as an artist, Steve McQueen is exceptional.

On the list of "Things I'd Never, Ever, Ever, Ever, Ever, Ever Thought I'd Do But Found Myself Actually Doing," writing a piece that's (somewhat) sympathetic of a White woman who… ...

Furthermore, eliminating "nigger" and "injun" elides how closely language is tied to social norms. The everyday words we use aren't chosen by chance or dictated by a dictionary; they reflect our ...

In 2012, a knock-off Abercrombie & Fitch website was selling a pair of men’s shorts that were labeled “nigger-brown.” Gawker reported that the China-based site had (badly) translated the ...

Professor Randall Kennedy talked about his book, [Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word], published by Pantheon Books. The book traces the word "nigger," to identify how it has been ...