104282, I just ordered that Randall Kennedy book Posted by janey, Tue Jan-02-07 01:56 PM
after reading an essay by Emily Bernard collected in Best American Essays 2006, called "Teaching the N Word." I've kind of been resisting, but I think Kennedy is deliberately fucking with me on that one. For many and varied reasons, asking for it in the bookstore was extremely uncomfortable, which I think was part of Kennedy's intent, and it's certainly not a book that I can carry in public. But I trust him.
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