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 | Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (1st Edition) by Randall Kennedy Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 0-375-71371-9 / 0375713719 ISBN-13: 978-0-375-71371-2 / 9780375713712 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 word's history in literature, song, film, po | |