![]() Anti-Bias Study Guide, Anti-Defamation League, 1998Īre you with me? Not surprisingly, the announcement of the forthcoming Huck Finn (now with more “slave”) version has provoked a variety of reactions. First recorded in 1587 (as negar), the word probably originated with the dialectal pronunciation of negro in northern England and Ireland. ![]() Nigger (also spelled niggar): a word that is an alteration of the earlier neger, nigger derives from the French negre, from the Spanish and Portuguese negro, from the Latin niger (black). To quote from a quote from the aforementioned Teachers Guide: It gives an overview of why it’s a sensitive issue and offers practical advice for how to teach the book without the use of scissors, a sharpie, find-and-replace, or white out. They cover the N-issue directly in an accompanying guide for teachers on the PBS website. A PBS documentary from the year 2000 discusses the history of controversy over the book–of which this language issue is a small, if incendiary, part. If you weren’t aware of the whole kerfuffle over Mark Twain’s classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the attempts to avoid some uncomfortableness about teaching the book by using the word slave in place of a certain controversial pejorative word that begins with the letter between “M” and “O” and that rhymes with “T*mmy H*lf*g*r”, well it would take way too long to explain the whole thing here in a suitably evasive way.īut it’s worth noting that these issues are not new.
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