books.google.com - It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly argued...http://books.google.com/books/about/Nigger.html?id=VgVzXgUxFB4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareNigger