Word: niggerism
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...Peninsula's advertisement and sponsorship of an event entitled: "Spade Kicks: A Symposium on Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation." The terms "spade" and "Negro" used to identify African-Americans have angered and offended the Black community. "Spade" is an epithet similar to "nigger" in its derogatory denotation of African-Americans. Likewise, while the term "Negro" was historically used to describe African-Americans until the 1960s, its usage without qualification is now considered unacceptable and offensive. Furthermore, the title's assertion of the "Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation" invokes stereotypes of black sexuality--blacks...
...article entitled "Racial Slurs," condemnedwidespread use of the word "nigger" in the themedia and theorized about why it appears morefrequently than other ethnic slurs...
Counter suggested that ethnic whites whocontrol or influence the media use the word"nigger" to lessen their insecurity about theirown ethnicities and to denigrate Blacks...
...passage said that "The widespread increasein use of the 'nigger'...may well be part of amuch larger ethnic scheme designed to denigrateAfro-Americans and keep them as the focus ofnegative attention for the American majority...
Darshak M. Sanghavi '92, a former AAA vicepresident, said he doubts the slur will receivethe concern it deserves. He said he believes astronger campus response would have resulted ifthe phrase had read "nigger" instead of "chink...