T.Jacobs, Andrew

Contributions

• Appropriating a Slur
  Articles
  The word 'nigger' is arguably the most charged epithet in American English; thus it is surprising that this word has been appropriated by some African Americans to refer to themselves. To be precise, the African-American version of this term is not 'nigger' but 'nigga', a word that has, as Geneva...Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 5 No. 4 (2002): Loop