Word: niggerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1930s, Stander helped organize the Screen Actors Guild, raised money for the Spanish Loyalists, fought for release of the Scottsboro boys. "I was branded a nigger-loving Communist and every other red spot you can mention," he says. "I didn't work again for a major studio...
...South the scapegoat for its own failings. As many a Northern politician has discovered, condemning the South is a good way to avoid the reality that it is not only the South but all of American society that needs reconstructing. "James Baldwin said the white man invented the nigger because he needed him," Pat Watters writes; "so, too, the nation may have invented the South...
...WHICH, to use Mr. Jiveass Nigger's expression, is cool. Very, very cool. The hero, George Washington, can now walk off into the sunset, feeling very beautiful inside, knowing he can make it on his own terms and tell the white world to go sit on its own white ass. The author, however, has seen to it that the reader is not left in quite so secure a position. He has made quite sure that you never know where you stand in relation to the book; although one minute you may be laughing with him at all the jive...
...style and general format of the novel are easy and without interruption; yet somehow, amid the general flow of things, realities are contorted, perspectives tiltcrazily, and the whole tone of the novel can shuttle back and forth from snide humor to outright malevolence. "All is jive," says Mr. Jiveass Nigger, and from the beginning of the book until its end, you're never quite sure if you might not just be the one who's being jived...
...sure as you are a jiveass nigger, some well-meaning intellectuals will be picking through your soul... will be picking through your dirty drawers, and undoubtedly some frail lady will turn your dead cock over with the tip of her Scripto looking for "meaning." But they will not find it here, not the same meaning they find in fine "homes" in the Berkeley hills, Wall Street, PepsiCola, Perry Como, Toilets, Nixon, crew cuts, and Cadillacs. You will have them understand what you mean by jive...