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Author Talk: Hiram L. Smith — Wassup, My N...
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1:07:11Now PlayingWatch author Hiram L. Smith discuss "Wassup, My N..." at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.
The history and meaning of one of the most controversial words in American English
Hiram L. Smith is the Ruth Everett Sierzega Chair in Linguistics at Bucknell University. He published the first historical study of "nigga" and is the first African American linguist to write a book on the word. His research interests span African American English, Afro-Hispanic creole languages, Spanish, and Pennsylvania Dutch.
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