000313633 000__ 02521cam\a2200325\a\4500 000313633 001__ 313633 000313633 005__ 20210513114221.0 000313633 008__ 060818s2007\\\\mau\\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000313633 010__ $$a 2006026872 000313633 020__ $$a9780618197170 000313633 020__ $$a0618197176 000313633 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm71222991 000313633 035__ $$a313633 000313633 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dBAKER$$dNPL$$dOCO$$dYDXCP$$dC#P$$dBTCTA$$dBUR 000313633 043__ $$an-us--- 000313633 049__ $$aISEA 000313633 05000 $$aE185$$b.A85 2007 000313633 08200 $$a305.896/073$$222 000313633 1001_ $$aAsim, Jabari,$$d1962- 000313633 24514 $$aThe N word :$$bwho can say it, who shouldn't, and why /$$cJabari Asim. 000313633 260__ $$aBoston :$$bHoughton Mifflin,$$c2007. 000313633 300__ $$ax, 278 p. ;$$c22 cm. 000313633 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 258-262) and index. 000313633 5050_ $$aBirth of a notion : 1619-1799. Founding fictions -- Niggerology, part 1 -- The progress of prejudice : 1800-1857. No place to be somebody -- Niggerology, part 2 -- Life among the lowly -- Jim Crow and company -- Dreams deferred : 1858-1896. The world the war made -- Nigger happy -- Separate and unequal : 1897-1954. Different times -- From house niggers to niggerati -- Bad niggers -- Progress and paradox : 1955-present. Violence and vehemence -- To slur with love -- What's in a name? -- Nigger vs. nigga. 000313633 520__ $$aReveals how the slur has both reflected and spread bigotry in America over the last 400 years. Asim pinpoints Thomas Jefferson as the source of our enduring image: in a seminal but now obscure essay, he marshaled a welter of pseudo-science to define the stereotype of a shiftless child-man with huge appetites and stunted self control. Asim reveals how nineteenth-century "science" then colluded with popular culture to amplify this slander. What began as false generalizations became institutionalized in every corner of our society. Asim argues that even when uttered with the opposite intent by hipsters and hip-hop icons, using the slur helps keep blacks at the bottom of America's socio-economic ladder. But, he also shows, there is a place for this word in the mouths and on the pens of those who truly understand its twisted history. Only when we know its legacy can we loosen its grip.--From publisher description. 000313633 650_0 $$aRacism$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 000313633 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xRace relations$$xHistory. 000313633 85200 $$bgen$$hE185$$i.A85$$i2007 000313633 85641 $$3Table of contents only$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006026872.html 000313633 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0702/2006026872-d.html 000313633 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:313633$$pGLOBAL_SET 000313633 980__ $$aBIB 000313633 980__ $$aBOOK 000313633 994__ $$aC0$$bISE