Books Mentioned in This Episode

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.

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Nigger

by Randall Kennedy

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"Randall has written a book titled 'Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.'"
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Nigger

by Randall Kennedy

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"The book that you're referring to is 'Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.'"
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

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"For instance, consider a teacher teaching Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn' where the word 'nigger' appears over 200 times."
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From slavery to freedom

by John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

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"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."
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For Discrimination

by Randall Kennedy

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"You wrote a book on the topic titled For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law."