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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Nigger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) The term nigger was used in lumber mills until the mid-point of the 20th century. Nigger Heaven (1926) is a book by Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) set during the Harlem Renaissance in the United States in the 1920s. Nigger in the Window is a book written by a young fl girl who describes the world from her window. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nigger   (9798 words)

Books on NRO Weekend It's no surprise that a state supreme court reversed a murder conviction in which the prosecutor referred to the defendant as a "nigger" — but it is interesting that the ruling was in 1911 Mississippi. In reviewing the book for The New Republic, another invaluable African-American professor, John McWhorter, asserts, "The sad, simple fact is that if a fl person can be reduced to sputtering despair by this word, then deep down he or she believes that the charge is true." I think that is an exaggeration. Unfortunately, then, "nigger" is likely to remain powerful for so long as there are substantial fl-nonfl disparities in crime, illegitimacy, and other social pathologies, and in academic achievement. www.nationalreview.com /weekend/books/books-cleggprint011202.html   (707 words)

Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy, reviewed by The ... Kennedy usefully focuses on the fl use of "nigger" and on "nigger," stage three, as evidence of the word's dynamic transformation over time, even seeing fls' adoption of the word as itself the expression of psychological and historical agency, a self-empowering retort to the word's original use as a slur. Blacks' use of "nigger" may be affectionate, or creative, or a coping mechanism; but it is certainly more than just a cheeky refusal to be "boring." And this extends to "nigger," stage three. But the other convention of "nigger," stage three, is the increasingly prevalent attempts by whites to fashion "nigger" into a reference to people of all races who display inappropriate behavior, weak character, and slovenly speech. www.powells.com /review/2002_01_31.html   (2664 words)

ZNet | Russia | The Mighty N-Word Randall Kennedy, in his provocative, but conflicted, short polemic, nigge,r denounces the double standard that my son and other young fls apply to whites, and contends that nigger is hardly the earth-shattering, illegitimate word that many fls and whites brand it. He is intrigued by the fl comedians and rappers that sprinkle the word throughout their rap lyrics and comedy lines, and the fl writers, and filmmakers who go through lengthy gyrations to justify using the word. Nigger can’t and shouldn’t be made acceptable, no matter whose mouth it comes out of or what excuse they give for using it. www.zmag.org /content/Russia/hutch0124.cfm   (784 words)

A Word of Trouble In Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (Pantheon Books, 2002), Kennedy examines the legal and social history of the "paradigmatic slur," as he calls it, a word that has caused such hurt and anger, a word that many people refuse to ever speak in any context. The book outlines the derivation and evolution of the word and its use by bigots, comedians, rappers, writers, and politicians, among others. The word that Randall Kennedy catalogued in his book roiled the HLS campus this spring when a student posted a course outline that included a shortened version of the racial epithet. www.law.harvard.edu /alumni/bulletin/2002/summer/bf_01.html   (817 words)

[No title] The studio has also bought the rights to one of the most controversial and colourful books about the general, Hannibal by Ross Leckie, a Scottish author. He intends to feature scenes in the film inspired by passages in Leckie's book that are not corroborated by historical facts, including a gruesome portrayal of the gang-rape of Hannibal's wife - even though there is no proof that she even existed. The book also suggests that Hannibal sought revenge by burying 400 Roman soldiers alive, and disembowelling eight pregnant women, in addition to impaling hundreds of Roman townspeople. www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/07/21/whann21.xml   (883 words)

The N word - Salon To say that a white person couldn't have written this book is not to insult the fine, perspicacious job Randall Kennedy, a member of the Harvard Law School faculty, has done here, or to suggest that he might be replaceable. Whites mostly use "nigger" as either a racist epithet or when describing racist attitudes. Nigger was a piece-of-clay word that you could shape... dir.salon.com /story/books/feature/2002/01/22/kennedy/index.html   (607 words)

SC Book Festival | Authors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) His newest book, Split Second (Warner Books, 2003) is a compelling, fast-paced political thriller that gives readers an inside look at the work of the Secret Service as it strives to protect America's leaders. Courtney Febbroriello is the co-owner of the Connecticut bistro, Metro Bis, and wife of its chef, Chris Prosperi; she laughingly scrapes away at the high gloss of the restaurant life and of culinary marriage in her memoir Wife of the Chef. Her first book, The Ice Master, was released in November 2000 and named one of the top ten best nonfiction books of the year by Entertainment Weekly. www.scbookfestival.org /authors2004.html   (3630 words)

Writer's Block, Essay, The Under-Cover Book Guide, Secrets to judging a book without ever looking inside - Summer 2002 And for all books, the bar code and ISBN have become the industry standard for identifying the publisher, title author and edition of the book. Writing a book is no longer an act in and of itself, but a modest part (usually, but not always, the beginning) of an extensive media production. The book has become a poster for itself, a point-of-purchase marketing tool, and an advertisement for its author, whose appearance on the morning talk show circuit is conveniently matched to the title’s release date. www.writersblock.ca /summer2002/essay.htm   (2147 words)

Amazon.com: Nigger - The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word: Books: Randall Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) Throughout the book, Kennedy offers a solid discussion on the differing schools of thought between the "eradicationists", those who maintain that all uses of the word are wrongful and hurtful, and those of a more tolerant group who support use of the term in its proper context. Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy is a book that most definitely has had and will continue to have a profound influence on the discussion of race, racism, and language in today's greater society as well as the legal community. Lastly, in the discussion on how Nigger is used only by the chosen that have been affirmed its us, he makes it clear that affirmation of its use does not lie typically in those who are not Black and most definitely not for those who are seeking some kind of status in American society. www.amazon.com /Nigger-Strange-Career-Troublesome-Word/dp/0375421726   (2343 words)

Nigger by Randall Kennedy | PopMatters Book Review Two nigger stories: 1) one balmy NYC night about 14 years ago, I was walking with a group of friends in the neighborhood of New York University. Nigger is thoroughly enmeshed in litigation." There is, of course, Los Angles police officer Mark Fuhrman's denial of using the word in the Simpson trial; however, the most fascinating legal case of the word involves Julius Fisher. She had called him a "fl nigger" after he spoke to her about his job performance with his supervisor. www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/n/nigger.shtml   (1016 words)

Black Mischief In his new book Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, he takes encouragement from the fact that many fl people flaunt the term among themselves, and he seeks to extend the repeal of the taboo. Dick Gregory wrote a book with the same name some years ago, telling his mother that every time she heard the word from now on, she could tell herself that people were advertising her son's work. George Orwell's essay against imperialism, "Not Counting Niggers," depends for its effect upon the shock and bite of the epithet, and of the foulness of the thought that it expresses. www.thenation.com /doc/20020304/hitchens   (818 words)

Book Monitor (Current Edition) Her book, Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right, is a thermonuclear counterattack on dishonest liberals and their fellow travelers in the media. The meticulous assembly of quotes from prominent Democrats and their media mouthpieces is the real source of the book's shock value. Liberals have controlled the media for a quarter-century, and, as Coulter demonstrates, their hegemony has apparently robbed them of the ability to argue coherently. www.americasfuture.net /bookmonitor/2002/2002-09-02.html   (522 words)

That Word It's Kennedy's opinion that to ignore what's behind the word nigger is to "make oneself vulnerable to all manner of perils," and that it would do more harm than good to turn away from its history and its destructiveness. For as Kennedy makes clear in his book, nigger is far from static in meaning. Just as there are devastatingly bad uses of nigger, there are, Kennedy believes, "good uses"—uses that can promote the cause of justice (Mark Twain's bitterly facetious "Only a Nigger") or that can help "yank nigger away from white supremacists" (the comedy of Richard Pryor and Chris Rock). www.theatlantic.com /unbound/interviews/int2002-01-17.htm   (330 words)

The Black Commentator - The N-word as Therapy for Racists As the Times article noted, the use of "Nigger" in the book's title is a matter of major concern to African-Americans, given the N-word's cruel and vicious epithet history. It should also be noted, by the way, that Kennedy's core purpose in producing "Nigger" was to assist White Americans in feeling comfortable with using the epithet "nigger," once they understood from his text how the epithet was used among African-Americans in their interpersonal tete-a-tete. In early 2002 Fox Television Network produced a subplot episode in its situation drama "Boston Public" that revolved around Kennedy's book, "Nigger" - resulting, of course, in a major advertisement for the book. www.blackcommentator.com /n_word.html   (1585 words)

News & Politics Paula Martinac is a Lambda Literary Award-winning author of seven books and editor in chief of Q Syndicate. Likewise, the slang use of "nigger" by African Americans remains controversial and hasn't taken the sting out of that word's long legacy of hate. Author Randall Kennedy, a Harvard law professor, faced heavy criticism from fellow African Americans when he titled his 2002 book "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word." Kennedy's critics said it would be better to eradicate that word from the English language than to study it. www.planetout.com /news/feature.html?sernum=471   (651 words)

AlterNet: There's No Crying in Baseball Woodson received his high school diploma at the age of 22 and went on to get a master's degree in history from the University of Chicago. It is not an Americanism, the first recorded use of nigger being in a 1786 poem by Robert Burns... "So sensitive are people – fl and white – to the use of nigger that the word niggardly (miserly), which sounds like but is no relation to it etymologically, is often avoided," Hendrickson reports, noting also that the word was once used by white mountain men in the early West among themselves. www.alternet.org /columnists/story/21256   (914 words)

BOOKFORUM | winter 2002 He has bounced from a major New York publisher in 1983, when he was a promising young African American writer, to small houses and university presses, his face glowering from his book covers more unhappily every time. On the front of the book jacket I'll even give you a nice photomontage of a little fl boy holding a gun to his head. Through all this Ellison is competent, resourceful, devoted—and a new book, We's Lives In Da Ghetto, a first novel by a young fl writer named Juanita Mae Jenkins, a searing, horrifying portrait of the degradation of the American fl woman by the American fl man, is slowly driving him nuts. www.bookforum.com /archive/win_02/marcus.html   (504 words)

Pressure Point Fall 2003: Fly the Offend-ly Skies Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word and the controversy that it caused. Nigger is Kennedy’s contention that both races should be equally free to use the eponymous and notorious word. One of the women, claiming emotional and physical distress, complained that, because the original ditty included the word “nigger” where we now say “tiger,” the stewardess had issued a racial slur. www.nyla.org /index.php?page_id=691   (454 words)

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