Word: niggerism
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...most celebrated comic revolutionary. Frustrated with the safe material he was doing on TV and in nightclubs, he walked out on a gig in Vegas, moved to Berkeley, Calif., and began talking about the things that mattered to him: race (assaulting the audience with the once taboo word nigger), sex and his own colorful, often tumultuous life. He re-created the street characters--winos, pimps, junkies--he had grown up with in the Peoria, Ill., ghetto, where his grandmother ran whorehouses. And he dragged the culture along with him. His comedy albums--starting with his 1974 masterpiece That Nigger...
...haunting scene, Turner attacks a Flamenco singer for addressing him as “el señor negrito”—Tuner mistakes the Spanish for “nigger.” After they have fled the scene of the assault together, Miriam implores Turner to explain why he reacted so violently to the singer’s affectionate reference to him as “blacky.” Turner replies wearily, “How could anyone think black is a compliment...
...fellowship, Rose gravitated to the black players, and was warned by the front office about fraternizing too much with Robinson and Vada Pinson. "Pete is turning nigger on us" was the brutal expression of the day. "But they were the only ones who treated me like a human being," he says. "I think now maybe they were able to see something in me." Robinson remembers it this way: "We accepted him for what he was. They called him a hot dog for trying to do things he couldn't. We admired him for laboring beyond his skills. They resented...
...author of the controversial Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word and Race, Crime, and the Law, Kennedy has been at Harvard Law School since 1986. He attended Princeton as an undergraduate and after a year studying in England as a Rhodes Scholar, moved to New Haven to attend Yale...
Randall Kennedy, reading from his new book Interracial Intimacies. Kennedy, a Harvard Law School Professor, stirred controversy last year with his bestseller Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word. His newest work is a lengthy examination of the shifts in relationships between blacks and whites throughout American history. Thursday, Jan. 16 at 6 p.m. Sponsored by Harvard Bookstore, Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway...