There's a review of Randall Kennedy's book: _Nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word_ at: http://salon.com/books/feature/2002/01/22/kennedy/index.html Dr M Lynne Murphy Lecturer in Linguistics Acting Director, MA in Applied Linguistics School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QH UK phone +44-(0)1273-678844 fax +44-(0)1273-671320