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The N Word Who Can Say It, who Shouldn't, and why

Hardcover • 2007 • English

The N Word Who Can Say It, who Shouldn't, and why

By Jabari Asim

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About the book

Reveals how the slur has both reflected and spread bigotry in America over the last 400 years. Asim pinpoints Thomas Jefferson as the source of our enduring image: in a seminal but now obscure essay, he marshaled a welter of pseudo-science to define the stereotype of a shiftless child-man with huge appetites and stunted self control. Asim reveals how nineteenth-century "science" then colluded with popular culture to amplify this slander. What began as false generalizations became institutionaliz...Show more

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ISBN

9780618197170

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

The N Word Who Can Say It, who Shouldn't, and why

Format

Hardcover

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