Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Episode: Randall Kennedy: The N-Word - History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #379
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Nigger
Buy on Amazon"Randall has written a book titled 'Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.'"
Nigger
Buy on Amazon"The book that you're referring to is 'Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.'"
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Buy on Amazon"For instance, consider a teacher teaching Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn' where the word 'nigger' appears over 200 times."
From slavery to freedom
Buy on Amazon"One is the continuing story of racism, which is an awful story; but the other story is encapsulated in the title of a great book of history by John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom."
For Discrimination
Buy on Amazon"You wrote a book on the topic titled For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law."