num_pages: 226
description: The critically acclaimed author of Race, Crime, and the Law provides an incisive analysis of the word "nigger" and its repercussions for, effect on, and place in American culture as he answers questions about the use of the controversial word as a racial epithet and methods that can deprive the word of its destructive character. 50,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
titlecomplete: Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
genres: Cultural, Politics, Linguistics, Nonfiction, Language, American History, Sociology, Race, History, African American
ratings_count: 1535
publisher: Pantheon Books