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Informed, sensible and impassioned. -- Kirkus Reviews [Asim] is most eloquent when relating how African Americans have been characterized in our culture; how the word nigger has been employed to oppress, belittle, dismiss, humiliate, and ridicule black people; and how they themselves have increasingly used it to satirize and oppose that oppression. -- Library Journal [Asim] sweeps over this sensitive and contradictory terrain--including black Americans' use of the word--with practicality, while dispensing gentle provocations...Clear, engaging writing increases the pleasure. -- Publishers Weekly Provocative and compelling...Asim's book is not just the etymology of the word but also a capsule history of racism in America. -- Newsday Important, timely, and much-needed...a brilliant and bracing history lesson. -- Washington Post A sharp-eyed musing on the history of the word and how it bears, or should bear, on a media-driven culture that is dangerously ahistorical, especially in matters of race. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

Informed, sensible and impassioned. -- Kirkus Reviews [Asim] sweeps over this sensitive and contradictory terrain--including black Americans' use of the word--with practicality, while dispensing gentle provocations...Clear, engaging writing increases the pleasure. -- Publishers Weekly [Asim] is most eloquent when relating how African Americans have been characterized in our culture; how the word nigger has been employed to oppress, belittle, dismiss, humiliate, and ridicule black people; and how they themselves have increasingly used it to satirize and oppose that oppression. -- Library Journal A sharp-eyed musing on the history of the word and how it bears, or should bear, on a media-driven culture that is dangerously ahistorical, especially in matters of race. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review Important, timely, and much-needed...a brilliant and bracing history lesson. -- Washington Post Provocative and compelling...Asim's book is not just the etymology of the word but also a capsule history of racism in America. -- Newsday

"""Informed, sensible and impassioned."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""[Asim] sweeps over this sensitive and contradictory terrain--including black Americans' use of the word--with practicality, while dispensing gentle provocations...Clear, engaging writing increases the pleasure."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" [Asim] is most eloquent when relating how African Americans have been characterized in our culture; how the word nigger has been employed to oppress, belittle, dismiss, humiliate, and ridicule black people; and how they themselves have increasingly used it to satirize and oppose that oppression. -- ""Library Journal"" A sharp-eyed musing on the history of the word and how it bears, or should bear, on a media-driven culture that is dangerously ahistorical, especially in matters of race. -- ""Los Angeles Times Book Review"" Important, timely, and much-needed...a brilliant and bracing history lesson. -- ""Washington Post"" Provocative and compelling...Asim's book is not just the etymology of the word but also a capsule history of racism in America. -- ""Newsday"""

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Jabari Asim is deputy editor of the Washington Post Book World. He also writes a weekly syndicated column on popular culture. His writing has appeared in Essence, Salon.com, the Los Angeles Times, and the Village Voice. Mirron Willis-actor of film, stage, and television-is the winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2012 and a finalist for the Audie in 2015, as well as the winner of four AudioFile Earphones Awards for his audiobook recordings. He has worked extensively in film and television and on stage with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Houston Shakespeare Festival, and the Ensemble Theatre, among others. He has recorded some 150 audiobooks, including the Smokey Dalton series by Kris Nelscott and My Song by Harry Belafonte. He resides and records audiobooks on his family's historic ranch in East Texas.

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