Word: niggerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LIFE AND LOVES OF MR. JIVEASS NIGGER by Cecil Brown. 213 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...Kwei Armah, 29, have Ivy League backgrounds (Columbia, Harvard), but they are more different than alike. Brown was born in North Carolina, where at 15 he was sharecropping five acres. Armah is a Ghanaian who returned to Africa after college to write. Brown's character, "Mr. Jiveass Nigger," is really named George Washington. A black boy on a trip to Copenhagen, he is so busy hustling the world that he has forgotten whether there is anything inside his put-on. Armah's gentle protagonist, Baako Onipa, is a "been-to"-a Ghanaian who has returned from abroad...