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Text and/or other creative content from this version of Nigger was copied or moved into Use of nigger in the arts with this edit on 23:10, June 19, 2019. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.
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Because the word nigger has historically "wreaked symbolic violence, often accompanied by physical violence"...
The quoted material appears to originate in the article:
Rahman, Jacquelyn (June 2012). "The N Word: Its History and Use in the African American Community". Journal of English Linguistics. 40 (2): 137–171. doi:10.1177/0075424211414807..
The words are found in more than one legal case, all citing back to this academic paper. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the article itself (it's not in the free abstract) to either verify the quotation or to get a specific page cite, but perhaps another editor, armed with the cite above, can.
I see now that this article is cited, currently as reference #3 in the article, so all it really needs is for someone to verify and attach the reference to the quotation; it is on the full sentence itself, but not in a way that clarifies it as attribution for the quotation. TJRC (talk) 02:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
page 142: Because nigger has historically wreaked symbolic violence (Butler 1997; Coupland 2007; Zizek 2007), often accompanied by physical violence, the negative meaning of nigger, which for some African Americans includes nigga, remains an active part of consciousness. For them, the racist meaning obliterates and disallows the legitimacy of any positive meanings that African Americans may claim for the term (Kennedy 2002; Asim 2007; Larkins 2006, qtd. in Echegoyen 2006).Alcaios (talk) 09:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The redirect N-word pass has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 April 8 § N-word pass until a consensus is reached. Casablanca 🪨(T) 18:44, 8 April 2025 (UTC)