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Pedagogy and the N-Word

Inside Higher Ed

Dropping what scholar Randall Kennedy - author of “N-word: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word” [1] calls the “Atomic Bomb” of slurs into the middle of a classroom produces a flash of light and heat that (at least temporarily) obscures anything else. Do you think I am wrong to do so?

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The author describes how her child's diagnosis with a severe illness in late 2021 turned her prior struggles with a "simmering stew of burnout and discouragement" into a "full-blown professional crisis" that led her to declare what she called "academic Chapter 11. 4 below) and podcast conversations (No.