Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

Title: Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

Author: Randall Kennedy

Publisher: Pantheon

Publication Year: 2022

ISBN:  9780593316528

Kennedy questions the claim that “nigger” is the most tabooed term in the American language, faced with the implacable prevalence of its old-fashioned anti-Black sense. “Nigger” continues to be part of the loud soundtrack of the worst instances of racial aggression in American life—racially motivated assaults and murders, arson, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and workplace harassment.