

Nigger
The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word - with a New Introduction by the Author
Author: Randall Kennedy
Narrator: Langston Darby
Unabridged: 5 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 02/08/2022
Synopsis
With unprecedented candor and insight Kennedy explores such questions as: How should nigger be defined? Is it, as some have declared, necessarily more hurtful than other racial epithets? Do blacks have a right to use nigger even as others do not? Should the law view nigger baiting as a provocation strong enough to reduce the culpability of a person who responds violently to it? Should a person be fired from his or her job for saying nigger? How might the destructiveness of nigger be assuaged?
To be ignorant of the meanings and effects of nigger, says Kennedy, is to render oneself vulnerable to all manner of peril. This book brilliantly and sensitively addresses that concern.