A review by jsisco
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy

3.0

There's something disappointing about the text, and it may be the length. While he is certainly well-researched and even iconoclastic in the ways he views the subtleties of the word, Kennedy ultimately left me wanting more. I was transfixed by how he tackled this loathsome word and even defended it at times, and found his legal mind awe-inspiring. Maybe that is the problem - what was written was so profound, I was upset there wasn't more of it.