Eulogy for Nigger and Other Essays

A ***Eulogy for Nigger*** is a bold and original piece of rhetoric. In 2007, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held a solemn funeral for the N-word. David Bradley responds to the burial with an impassioned defence of Nigger as a word, as a history and as a concept. This collection brings together the six international winners of the Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize. From the coolly analytical to the impassioned winning entry ***'A Eulogy for Nigger'***, these essays showcase the dazzling literary range of the form. These are writers who, in the words of <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL719613A" target="_blank">Adam Mars-Jones</a>, Judge and Chair, ‘understand that it is not just what we see, but how we see it’.