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Articles tagged "nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word"

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Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal

by Mark Reynolds

[22.Jul.08] :. Notable figures from Diana Ross to Barack Obama have been slapped with the "s-word" at some point or another for any number of real or imagined offenses.

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Column: Negritude 2.0

The NAACP’s Mock Burial of Its Relevance

by Mark Reynolds

[30.Jul.07] :. Our enemy is not the "N-word" itself; it’s whatever propels people to use it. We need healers, not language nannies.

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Nigger by Randall Kennedy

by James Withers

[21.Aug.02] :. If hip-hop is as American as apple pie, then the language it uses, a language that some call coarse and others call authentic has become the currency of hipness and modernity.

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