MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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TNC reads Huck Finn to his kids
By Donal on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:07pm |We encountered the first of what must be at least 200 instances of the word "nigger" on page 6, along with Jim himself. Now I remembered!
I flipped ahead, finding the word on almost every other page, twice or three times a page. The book was lousy with it.
"Guys," I said, putting it down. "We need to talk about this."
URL:
http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2011/01/the-unspeakable-in-its-jammies/69369/
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