Nigger - The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy

Nigger - The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

Randall Kennedy

498 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history race funny reflective slow-paced
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others, to the rise of that “handsome Negro lad,” Sam Cooke (perhaps the greatest of soul singers) and his definitive crossover dreams; from Berry Gordy Jr.’s infatuation with Doris Day and his sharp business plan to capture and exploit the sounds...

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