Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word: Randall Kennedy: 9780375713712: Amazon.com: Books
Nigger is Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy's ornate, lively monograph on what he calls the "paradigmatic" racial slur in the English language. A neutral noun in the 17th century, nigger had, by 1830, become an "influential" insult. Kennedy traces the...