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cgod · 3517 days ago · link · · parent · post: A personal account of how call out culture has harmed teaching
Reading nigger in Hick Finn is one thing, reading it in the works of the greatest Black American authors is another. As you progress up the cannon the use of negro, nigger an and colored all denote different levels of social standing and context in the works (they were fine reading negro and colored aloud btw). The words were carefully applied by gifted writers who were making keen observations on the experience of black Americans in their time. Which term a person was addressed by or self identified as could carry loads of subtext in the story.