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In The N Word, a renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word. The author reveals how the word has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America and states that only when we know its legacy can we loosen this slur's grip on our national psyche.
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"Informed, sensible and impassioned."
Kirkus Reviews
"[Asim] sweeps over this sensitive and contradictory terrain-including black Americans' use of the word-with practicality, while dispensing gentle provocations…Clear, engaging writing increases the pleasure."
Publishers Weekly
"He is most eloquent when relating how African Americans have been characterized in our culture; how the word nigger has been employed to oppress, belittle, dismiss, humiliate, and ridicule black people; and how they themselves have increasingly used it to satirize and oppose that oppression."
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