Are Scared of Revolution
December 2016
The history of the word nigger can be traced back to the Latin word niger, meaning “black.” This evolved into the English noun Negro (Black person), and into the word for the color black in Spanish and Portuguese. In early modern French, niger became nègre, and later négresse (Black woman), marking its place in linguistic history. The English slur nigger, along with earlier variants such as negar, neegar, neger and niggor, likely developed as a simplified spelling based on the way Negro was mispronounced in the Southern United States. Eventually taking on a deeply derogatory and violent meaning.
Shades of a (Nigger, Colored, Black, Non-White, the Other)
The N-word, where it all began. Why is a word like nigger still used in 2017 to describe another human being? Who can and who can't, use it? If you do use the word, in what context and form do you do so? What historical, cultural and social weight does this word carry?
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