{"product_id":"9780375713712","title":"Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is \u003ci\u003enigger\u003c\/i\u003e, and in this candid, lucidly argued book the distinguished legal scholar Randall Kennedy traces its origins, maps its multifarious connotations, and explores the controversies that rage around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShould blacks be able to use \u003ci\u003enigger\u003c\/i\u003e in ways forbidden to others? Should the law treat it as a provocation that reduces the culpability of those who respond to it violently? Should it cost a person his job, or a book like \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e its place on library shelves? With a range of reference that extends from the Jim Crow south to Chris Rock routines and the O. J. Simpson trial, Kennedy takes on not just a word, but our laws, attitudes, and culture with bracing courage and intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050276569328,"sku":"9780375713712","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375713712_p0.jpg?v=1763768195","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375713712","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}