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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"nigger"”.
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African American college students' conceptualizations and emotional reactions to the N-word: A vignette study
… level of acceptance of both forms (nigga and nigger) of the n-word based on a vignette. Additionally, participants were also asked about their general understanding of both forms of the n-word, the frequency of their personal use, the frequency in which they observe, and their emotional …
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Joseph Conrad's Confrontation With Racism
… growth is quite evident if one juxtaposes The Nigger of the "Narcissus," written in 1896, and "Amy Foster" (1903) or The Shadow-Line, completed in 1917. His early writings reflect his acceptance and use of common literary stereotypes of the color black, and through a process of color …
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The Picaresque in Six Afro-American Novels
… particularly in urban areas, the "Bad Nigger." Certain traditions of Afro-American literature and culture coincide with some characteristics of the picaresque: flights from slavery and the Great Migration; "masking"; a marginal economic and social status; satire at the expense of …
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"""Forms of Some Intenser Life"": Genre and Imperialism at the Turn of the Century"
… multiple genres, including Joseph Conrad’s The Nigger of the “Narcissus” and The Inheritors (with Ford Madox Ford), H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay, Bram Stoker’s The Snake’s Pass, and Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows.” This concentration of generic discontinuities not only demonstrates genre’s …
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The word that makes you go hmmm: exploring the relation between African Americans’ linguistic ideologies, racial identity attitudes, and usage of the n-word
… is a reshaping of the historical racial slur nigger), Baptismal (i.e., the word nigga can never be harmless because of its original meaning as a racial slur), and Performative (i.e., the word nigga should not be used since it may be emotionally harmful to those who hear it). The coding results …
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Petrology of the Cenozoic igneous rocks of the Tinton district, Black Hills, South Dakota - Wyoming
… the Wyoming South Dakota border. The Tinton or Nigger Hill uplift comprises a central area of domed Precambrian Xstrata with marginal exposures of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks which dip radially outward on all sides. The area was intruded by Cenozoic igneous rocks that include a stock of quartz …
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The Theme of Discipline and Control in Conrad's "The Heart of Darkness"
… of truth in thought and fact. In the Preface to Nigger of the Narcissus he clearly enunciated his conception of the artist’s masterpiece, a conception which he attempted to make a reality in his own works:</p> <p> And art itself may be defined as a single-minded attempt to render the highest kind …