An Indian-origin man's racial slur at a woman in the US has gone viral on social media. He used the "N-word" repeatedly to allegedly abuse the woman at a cafe.

LIGHT IN AUGUST—William Faulkner— Smith & Haas ($2.50). Those who from experience expect each Faulkner tale to be more gruesomely Gothic than the last will be disappointed in Light in ...

Professor Randall Kennedy talked about his book, [Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word], published by Pantheon Books. The book traces the word "nigger," to identify how it has been ...

The older Onyeama was famous for his controversial novel, “Nigger at Eton”, where he detailed the racial discrimination he faced at the Eton College.

A San Diego teacher was trying to do the right thing in teaching a poem by a Black writer. Now her job is on the line.

Is it acceptable for pedagogical purposes to enunciate the epithet “nigger”? The question is topical because of a string of incidents in which professors have been condemned, disciplined, even ...

The evolution of the slur's use — and the taboo around it — tells a story about what our culture values.

Free Speech UCLA Law Dean Apologizes for My Having Accurately Quoted the Word "Nigger" in Discussing a Case I, however, do not apologize. Eugene Volokh | 4.14.2020 5:14 PM ...

Volokh Conspiracy Wake Forest Dean Apologizes for Constitutional Law Professor's Quoting the Word "Nigger" from a Leading Supreme Court Case A word that appears >10,000 times in court cases, in a ...

The dog whistle days are apparently over. By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist In 1981 Lee Atwater, the famed Republican political operative, explained to an interviewer how his party had learned to ...

The media’s use of “racially tinged” telegraphs that racism is normal, non-pathological, and within the range of mainstream political disagreement.