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The term was used to mark Black people as inferior and to rationalize mistreatment from slavery through Jim Crow.
The word "nigger" carries a long history of symbolic and physical violence, serving for centuries as a tool of exclusion, humiliation, and justification for discrimination against Black people . Becau...
The term in the question is an extreme racial slur historically directed at Black people and regarded by major dictionaries as "perhaps the most offensive and inflammatory racial slur in English" , an...
Black people in the United States possess formal legal rights guaranteed by constitutional amendments and landmark federal laws, but the historical record and contemporary reporting show a persistent ...
Racist, dehumanizing tropes about Black people have operated as cultural tools to justify exploitation, violence, and political exclusion from slavery through Jim Crow and into contemporary media and ...