The N Word: Who Can Say It by Jabari Asim (.ePUB)(.AZW3)
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The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why by Jabari Asim
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Overview: A renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word.
The N Word reveals how the term “nigger” has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America over the four hundred years since it was first spoken on our shores. Asim pinpoints Thomas Jefferson as the source of our enduring image of the “nigger.” In a seminal but now obscure essay, Jefferson marshaled a welter of pseudoscience 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: the arts and sciences, sports, the law, and on the streets.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History > Race > Discrimination > Social Science
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