Household Words: Bloomers, Sucker, Bombshell, Scab, Nigger, Cyber

Stephanie A Smith

Household Words: Bloomers, Sucker, Bombshell, Scab, Nigger, Cyber
Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Country
United States
Published
1 January 2006
Pages
264
ISBN
9780816645527

Household Words: Bloomers, Sucker, Bombshell, Scab, Nigger, Cyber

Stephanie A Smith

Looking in detail at words that treat people as things, and things as people, and do so at that strange space where joking, ridiculing, demeaning, oppressing, resisting, and regretting converge, this book is a study of how certain words act as indices of political and social change, perpetuating anxieties and prejudices even as those ways of thinking have been seemingly resolved or overcome by history.

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