The N-word and Asian Indians

Thu Mar 12 02:05:35 UTC 2009

Do I not find any quotations in the OED associating "nigger" with
Asian Indians?

Joel

At 3/11/2009 09:40 PM, Barbara Need wrote:
>I am grading papers about racism in _Huck FInn_ and several students
>have said something implying that _nigger_ was offensive at either the
>time the book is set or the time Twain was writing (or both). I have
>not found anything very useful in the archives. Do we know how
>offensive the word was in the 19th century?

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