| 词条 | Nigger: An Autobiography by Dick Gregory |
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| name = Nigger | image = File:N*ggerGregory.jpg | caption = First h/b edition | author = Dick Gregory, with Robert Lipsyte | title_orig = | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = | language = | series = | subject = African American culture | genre = Autobiography | publisher = E. P. Dutton h/b Pocket Books p/b | pub_date = September 1964 | english_pub_date = | media_type = hardcover | pages = 209 | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = Write Me In! (1968) }} The autobiography of comedian and social activist Dick Gregory, co-authored with Robert Lipsyte, nigger was originally published in September 1964 by E. P. Dutton, and has since 1965 been reprinted numerous times in an edition available through Pocket Books, altogether selling more than one million copies to date.[1] Gregory continued his life story in two subsequent books, Up From Nigger and Callus On My Soul. Gregory earned a $200,000 advance from the book.[2] OriginsIt was written during the American Civil Rights Movement. Gregory comments on his choice of title in the book's primary dedication, addressing his maternal ancestors, {{quote|Dear Momma -- Wherever you are, if ever you hear the word "nigger" again, remember they are advertising my book.[3]}}Table of contents
The book contains photographs of Gregory performing at the Village Gate; he and his brother (1942); his mother, Lucille; Gregory as a drummer at Southern Illinois University (1953); as an SIU sprinter and Outstanding Athlete of the Year (1953); with coach Leland Lingle (1954); with Sammy Davis Jr. at Roberts Show Club, Chicago (1959); in a jail cell in Chicago; performing at the Hungry i, San Francisco (1963, shortly before the murder of Medgar Evers); at a voter registration rally, Greenwood, Mississippi (April 1963), among others. QuotesAddressing his maternal ancestors again, {{quote|You didn't die a slave for nothing, Momma. You brought us up. You and all those Negro mothers who gave their kids the strength to go on, to take that thimble to the well while the whites were taking buckets. Those of us who weren't destroyed got stronger, got calluses on our souls. And now we're ready to change a system, a system where a white man can destroy a black man with a single word. Nigger.[4]}}Cover titleThe original book cover stylizes the main title, "nigger", in all lower case, cursive writing. The title in its other appearances is otherwise formatted as most other books, either in all uppercase, or with normal book title capitalization. ReceptionThe New York Times wrote, in its review, {{quote|Powerful and ugly and beautiful...a moving story of a man who deeply wants a world without malice and hate and is doing something about it."[5]}}The book has been the subject of critical commentary, particularly in reference to its use of the pejorative term as the title.[6][7] It remains one of his best known works.[8] See also
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://books.simonandschuster.com/Nigger/Dick-Gregory/9780671735609 |title=Nigger | Book by Dick Gregory - Simon & Schuster |publisher=Books.simonandschuster.com |date=1990-11-15 |accessdate=2013-10-08}} 2. ^{{cite news|author=|title=Obituary: Richard “Dick” Gregory died on August 19th|url=https://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21728607-american-comedian-dietician-and-civil-rights-campaigner-was-84-obituary-richard-dick|work=The Economist|date=7 September 2017}} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.dickgregory.com/about_dick_gregory.html |title=Dick Gregory Global Watch - About Dick Gregory |publisher=Dickgregory.com |date=1932-10-12 |accessdate=2013-10-08 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070617034501/http://www.dickgregory.com/about_dick_gregory.html |archivedate=2007-06-17 |df= }} 4. ^[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=P6NLMvQoR-AC&lpg=PA238&ots=wYEwMslGxE&dq=You%20didn't%20die%20a%20slave%20for%20nothing%2C%20Momma.%20You%20brought%20us%20up.%20You%20and%20all%20those%20Negro%20mothers%20who%20gave%20their%20kids%20the%20strength%20to%20go%20on%2C%20to%20take%20that%20thimble%20to%20the%20well%20while%20the%20whites%20were%20taking%20buckets.%20Those%20of%20us%20who%20weren't%20destroyed%20got%20stronger%2C%20got%20calluses%20on%20our%20souls.%20And%20now%20we're%20ready%20to%20change%20a%20system%2C%20a%20system%20where%20a%20white%20man%20can%20destroy%20a%20black%20man%20with%20a%20single%20word.%20Nigger&pg=PA238#v=onepage&q&f=true Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts: Versions of American Identity From Henry Adams to Nate Shaw], Albert E. Stone, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982, page 238 5. ^Nigger, Dick Gregory with Robert Lipsyte. New York: Pocket Books, 1965 (12th printing), Standard Book Number 671-7509 6. ^{{cite news|last=Ridley |first=John |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1565566,00.html |title=Viewpoint: Why I'm Good with the N Word |publisher=TIME |date=2006-12-03 |accessdate=2013-10-08}} 7. ^{{cite web|author= |url=http://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2010/04/mark-twain-threw-it-up-in-the-air-and-i-grabbed-it/ |title="Mark Twain threw it up in the air and I grabbed it" | The Book Haven |publisher=Bookhaven.stanford.edu |date=2010-04-21 |accessdate=2013-10-08}} 8. ^{{cite web|author= |url=http://blackchristiannews.com/news/2011/10/dick-gregory-bestselling-author-of-nigger-says-occupy-wall-street-has-whiff-of-1960s.html |title=Dick Gregory, Bestselling Author of "Nigger" says Occupy Wall Street Has Whiff of 1960s - BCNN1 |publisher=Blackchristiannews.com |date=2011-10-10 |accessdate=2013-10-08}} 6 : Dick Gregory|1964 books|African-American autobiographies|E. P. Dutton books|Pocket Books books|Literary collaborations |
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