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A renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word.

Author Jabari Asim uses history, literature, and pop-culture to examine the volatility, usage, and marginally-acceptable appearance of that.

We can't escape history, a quite different Republican named Abraham Lincoln once noted.

Asim rehearses the history of the most noxious word in the English language and dreams of a day when it will disappear from the lexicon.

Author Jabari Asim uses history, literature, and pop-culture to examine the volatility, usage, and marginally-acceptable appearance of that.!

Asim, Jabari 1962–

PERSONAL:

Born 1962; married; wife's name Liana; children: five.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Washington Post, P.O.

Box 17370, Arlington, VA 22216.

CAREER:

Writer, journalist, columnist, editor, poet, and playwright. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, MO, served as book editor, copy editor of the daily editorial and commentary pages, and arts editor of the weekend section; Washington Post Book World, Washington, DC, senior editor.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Shirley LeFlore) Wordwalkers, Creative Arts & Expression Laboratory (St.

Louis, MO), 1988.

The Road to Freedom (novel for young adults), Jamestown Publishers (Lincolnwood, IL), 2000.

(Editor) Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice, and Life, Amistad Press (New York, NY), 2001.

The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2007.

Also author of the plays Caribbean Beat, produced by Muny Student Theatre Project; Peace, Dog, produced by The