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Book · 2002

Nigger - The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

by Randall Kennedy · Brought up by 1 person on 1 podcast

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My friend randall kennedy uh the law professor at harvard university has a book called nigger and he uses the word in the title of the book the history of a strange history of a of a provocative word it's something that there's a subtitle but the title of the book is n-i-g-g-e-r colon and then he has a subtitle.
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“my friend randall kennedy uh the law professor at harvard university has a book called nigger and he uses the word in the title of the book the history of a strange history of a of a provocative word it's something that there's a subtitle but the title of the book is n-i-g-g-e-r colon and then he has a subtitle”
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“Randall has written a book with this word as the title "N word: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word."”
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“The book that you're referring to is "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word."”

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