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  Nigger and Caricatures
Nigger was and remains a term of derision.
Nigger is the ultimate expression of white racism and white superiority, irrespective of the way it is pronounced.
Nigger may be viewed as an umbrella term – a way of saying that fls have the negative characteristics of the Coon, Buck, Tom, Mammy, Sambo, Picaninny, and other anti-fl caricatures.
www.ferris.edu /news/jimcrow/caricature   (2742 words)

  
 African American Registry -- Your Source for African American History
Nigger heaven: Designated places, usually the balcony, where fls were forced to sit, for example, in an integrated movie theater or church.
Nigger (as a word) is also used to describe a dark shade of color (nigger-brown, nigger-fl), the status of whites that mix together with Blacks (nigger-breaker, dealer, driver, killer, stealer, worshipper, and looking), and anything belonging to or linked to African Americans (nigger-baby, boy, girl, mouth, feet, preacher, job, love, culture, college, music, etc).
Nigger may be viewed as an umbrella term, a way of saying that Blacks have the negative characteristics of the Coon, Buck, Tom, Mammy, Sambo, Picaninny, and other anti-Black caricatures.
www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2420/Nigger_the_word_a_brief_history   (2669 words)

  
 NIGGER
The use of the term "nigger" by Blacks in reference to others Blacks is generally tolerated, although its usage in this context is highly offensive to some.
The mere utterance of this term by Whites is generally frowned upon, and may elicit strong or volatile reactions regardless of its contextual usage.
This term, which had been regarded as typifying offensive and derogatory attitudes within the white community, was adopted by the fl community as a form of self-assertion, with the aim of reducing the term’s derogation.
kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu /Dictionary/nigger.htm   (818 words)

  
 Huck Finn Teachers Guide: Huck Finn in Context: The Curriculum: Section 1: The "N" Word
Nigger (also spelled niggar): a word that is an alteration of the earlier neger, nigger derives from the French negre, from the Spanish and Portuguese negro, from the Latin niger (fl).
In the United States, "nigger" was first regarded as pejorative in the early nineteenth century.
In the era of enslavement, the words "nigger" or "fl" were inserted in front of a common American first name (e.g., John), given to a slave to distinguish the slave from any local white person with the same name.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/cultureshock/teachers/huck/section1_2.html   (1519 words)

  
 Nigger
Kennedy argues that context determines the meaning of nigger: “Nigger can mean many different things, depending upon, among other variables, intonation, the location of interaction, and the relationship between the speaker and those to whom he is speaking” (Kennedy 54).
This article was written in February of 2002, and the context in which the word is being used clearly indicates a lack of respect by the user for the history of discrimination against fls in America.
In fact, if the continued use of nigger could eradicate it of its original meaning then I am sure by now it would be okay for a white person to call me a nigger but a white person cannot do that because of the history of nigger.
wrt-intertext.syr.edu /XI/Nigger.html   (3719 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word: Randall Kennedy: Books
Nigger is Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy's ornate, lively monograph on what he calls the "paradigmatic" racial slur in the English language.
A neutral noun in the 17th century, nigger had, by 1830, become an "influential" insult.
Smart, well argued and never afraid of facing serious, difficult and painful questions in an unflinching and unsentimental manner, this is an important work of cultural and political criticism.
www.amazon.com /Nigger-Strange-Career-Troublesome-Word/dp/0375713719   (921 words)

  
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niggermania.com   (140 words)

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