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The N word
who can say it, who shouldn't, and why
By Asim, Jabari
- ISBN
- 978-0-61819-717-0
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2007
Asim's subtitle is misleading. This book is not so much a polemic about appropriate speech behavior as it is an historical account. Asim (editor,Washington Post Book World ) offers a detailed survey of representations of African Americans in popular culture and civil society from the Revolutionary War era to the present, with particular attention to the use of the wordnigger , its meanings, and its effect on listeners and re...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
