Nigger (2002 book)

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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word is a book by Randall Kennedy about the history and sociology of the word nigger. It was published in 2002.

The book was prominently featured in an episode of Boston Public in which a white teacher, played by Michael Rapaport, attempted to employ the book to teach his students about the history and controversy surrounding the word. (An interesting cross-note is that Rapaport portrayed Dunwitty in the 2000 Spike Lee movie Bamboozled, which is discussed in the book.)

[edit] External links

• PopMatters review by James Withers
• ISBN 0-375-42172-6
• "The N-Word as Therapy for Racists" by Dr. Martin Kilson
• Not While Racism Exists, by Gary Younge