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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

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Name
  
Nigger: Strange

Role
  
Book by Randall Kennedy


Originally published
  
2002

Author
  
Randall Kennedy


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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word is a 2002 book by Professor Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School about the history and sociology of the word "nigger".

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The book was prominently featured in an episode of Boston Public in which a white teacher, played by Michael Rapaport, attempted to employ the book to teach his students about the history and controversy surrounding the word.

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