Word: nigger
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After the book was originally slated to be released under the title Nigger: A Problem in American Culture, Kennedy and his editors at Pantheon Books, a subsidiary of Random House Inc., faced concerns that the subtitle was too broad and implied a meaning completely different from what Kennedy meant to convey...
...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...
...disarming jokes. The update also looks more closely at the subtle prejudice the African American Sayers faced among his own team (along with overt public racism when he and Piccolo became the Bears' first interracial roomies). But it cuts a key scene in which Piccolo calls Sayers a "nigger" to get a rise out of him, an apparent sop to contemporary sensibilities. Phifer's Sayers is a tougher nut to crack than Williams'; as Piccolo, Maher is a charming wiseacre, but a little too sprightly. Caan's wry, macho Piccolo was a football player. Maher's is an especially buff...
...February, Pantheon will publish "Nigger: A Problem in American Culture" by Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard Law School and an occasional TIME contributor. According to the publisher, "It is perhaps the most consequential social insult in American history and, at the same time, a word that reminds us of ?the ironies and dilemmas, tragedies and glories of the American experience. Now, Randall Kennedy ?puts a tracer on nigger,? in order to identify its use and analyze the controversies to which it has given rise. With unprecedented candor and insight he explores such questions as: How should ?nigger? be defined...
...It’s like the term ‘nigger,’ you wouldn’t use that term,” Asani said. “It’s offensive...