Word: eradicationistã
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...disregards its deep and loaded history. Kennedy’s book is in many ways an effort to analyze this history and place the deeply stigmatized and tabooed word at the forefront of race-relations dialogue in America. In fact, Kennedy censured what he called the “eradicationist?? position, espoused by those who want the N-word systematically eliminated from the American-English lexicon. To deny the usage of the word in any context, Kennedy contends, is to erase the word’s history and, potentially, the literature that captured this history, such as Twain?...
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