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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71222991 Title: The N word : who can say it, who shouldn't, and why Author: Jabari Asim Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007. ISBN/ISSN: 9780618197170 0618197176 OCLC:71222991

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The N word : who can say it, who shouldn't, and why

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The N word : who can say it, who shouldn't, and why

Author:	Jabari Asim
Publisher:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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 Read more...
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Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Jabari Asim Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780618197170 0618197176
OCLC Number:	71222991
Description:	x, 278 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:	Birth of a notion : 1619-1799. Founding fictions -- Niggerology, part 1 -- The progress of prejudice : 1800-1857. No place to be somebody -- Niggerology, part 2 -- Life among the lowly -- Jim Crow and company -- Dreams deferred : 1858-1896. The world the war made -- Nigger happy -- Separate and unequal : 1897-1954. Different times -- From house niggers to niggerati -- Bad niggers -- Progress and paradox : 1955-present. Violence and vehemence -- To slur with love -- What's in a name? -- Nigger vs. nigga.
Responsibility:	Jabari Asim.
More information:	Table of contents only Publisher description Sample text Contributor biographical information

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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 institutionalized in every corner of our society. Asim argues that even when uttered with the opposite intent by hipsters and hip-hop icons, using the slur helps keep blacks at the bottom of America's socio-economic ladder. But, he also shows, there is a place for this word in the mouths and on the pens of those who truly understand its twisted history. Only when we know its legacy can we loosen its grip.--From publisher description.

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