Word(s) Count
- A Brief History of the Word "NIGGER."From Ebony.
- Obama Called the N-Word in a HeadlineNew York Post piece on ironic headline.
- When Is It Ever Okay to Call the President the N-Word?CNN's coverage of same headline.
- Why I'm Good with the N-WordFrom TIME.
- NIGGA: The 21st-Century Theoretical Superhero"Discusses the different ways in which the racial terms "n##ger" and "n##ga" inform generational understandings of blackness."
Accept No Substitutes? The "N Word" in Huck Finn and Huck Finn in the Classroom
- Trying to Tame Huck FinnInterview with a Boston high school teacher
- WORD"reports on a program titled "Race Issues in Mark Twain: A Community Dialogue on Language & Dialect in 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn'" presented by by the National Endowment for the Arts in New York City."
- More Harm Than GoodExplores use of the "N word" in Huck Finn and beyond, as well as the moral and psychological repercussions of such use.
- The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry FinnA book review with useful commentary and reflection from African American Review.
- Huck Finn in ContextA teacher's guide from PBS.
- 'Sivilizing Huck FinnCompares the language in the original Huck Finn with the adaptation, and analyzes the goals of such alterations. From School Library Journal.
- 'Nigger' or 'Slave': Why Labels Matter for Jim (and Twain) in Adventures of Huckleberry FinnScholarly article on racial slurs in Huck Finn.
- Revising Mark TwainDiscussion of the language changes in the revised Huck Finn. From Jet.
