Mr. Kennedy talked about his book, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, published by Pantheon Books. The book chronicles the hi… read more Mr. Kennedy talked about his book ...

In other words, you'll see "nigger" used throughout the essay. We understand that the word is upsetting, so we wanted to offer people a chance to opt out now After each incident, after the ...

A retired U.S. Air Force officer, who is white, recently had his conviction overturned by a federal appeals court that found that the his use of the word “nigger” was protected by the First ...

"Them" being niggers. I have no qualm about using the word nigger. It is a word. It is in the English lexicon, and no amount of political correctness, no amputation into "the n-word"—as if by ...

That Jim. Now, there’s a nigger for you. Argued over ever since he first appeared, in Mark Twain’s 1884 masterpiece, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Nigger Jim is as dark and ...

Updated January 6, 2011, 3:57 PM I live in a city where I probably hear the word “nigger” 50 times a day from people of all colors and ages, though primarily from young people on public ...

In Hollywood, there are lots of jokes in the system! The social pattern that allows Quentin Tarantino’s “Nigger joke” to work is set in the South, two years before the Civil War, but my ...

In the two decades since he published his book “Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word,” Randall Kennedy has witnessed the persistence of the n-word as “an oft-heard feature of the ...

Defining racism as who does or does not say “nigger,” for instance, boils bigotry down to mere language rather than realizing it is a more silent and comprehensive web of oppression.