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...Kennedy??s attention to the importance of the N-word’s role in African-American history shows his appreciation for the subject’s complexity and demand for nuanced interpretation. To dismiss the word as a one-dimensional insult disregards its deep and loaded history. Kennedy??s book is in many ways an effort to analyze this history and place the deeply stigmatized and tabooed word at the forefront of race-relations dialogue in America. In fact, Kennedy censured what he called the “eradicationist” position, espoused by those...
...premise of Kennedy??s book is to illuminate African-American history through the prism of the word “nigger” and to chart the word’s strange and troubling history. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said, a word “is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,” but “the skin of a living thought [that] may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.” Kennedy??s book aims to study these circumstances...
These are questions Kennedy does not address head on. In fact, though one can debate Tarantino or Bruce’s theory that the word’s free use will lead to changed perceptions, or that the word should be used only in full understanding of its connotations, Kennedy??s text does not focus on these ideas...
...first word in the title of Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy??s new book, Nigger: Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, is sure to generate talk when the book is released in mid-January...
...Kennedy??s editor expects controversy upon the book’s release...