Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

By R. Kennedy. 2003

306 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• How to do things with slurs: Studies in the way of derogatory words (2013, background): “For instance, Kennedy (2002) asserts that African Americans continue to use the slur ‘‘openly and frequently in conversations with one another’’ (p. 37), and Spears (1998) argues that ‘‘the great majority of African Americans,”
• Niggers no more: a critical race counternarrative on Black male student achievement at predominantly White colleges and universities (2009, unknown): “In the final chapter of his book, Kennedy (2002) discusses contemporary condemnation of those who use Nigger to insult Black persons.”
• The Pragmatics of Slurs (2017, background): “Kennedy (2002) offers a radically contextualist picture in order to account for variation, insulation, and the offensiveness of mere mentions.”