Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Elizabeth Stordeur PryorTheme:Ethnic Orientation/African AmericanPublish date:6/2/2026Pages:304
Languages:EnglishPublisher:37 InkISBN-13:9781982154509ISBN-10:1982154500UPC:9781982154509Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Rich & Famous, Cultural & Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:African American & Black StudiesSize:9.10 x 6.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.454Product ID:SCV78QCSKJ
Part memoir by the daughter of the iconic comedian Richard Pryor, part exploration of the historical and contemporary use of the N-word, this hybrid book peels back the curtain on the life of Pryor and interrogates the most perplexing word in the American lexicon, a word he helped popularize. The N-word is one of the most perplexing, controversial and misunderstood words in the American lexicon. It's a word that Elizabeth Pryor has not only contemplated, it's one that she has taught and observed up close. When a white student quoted her father and blurted out the N-word in the middle of a class she was teaching, Professor Pryor's worlds collided. In that moment, she was forced to confront the history of the notorious slur in the United States, and her complicated relationship with her father Richard Pryor, who made the word a trademark of his comedy in the 1970s. As she dives into her research, her own memories of the N-word come flooding back in unprocessed memories that she hadn't thought about for decades. In reckoning with those memories, Elizabeth goes on a more public journey of discovery of the messy and sometimes surprising legacies of racism in the United States. A braided narrative that seamlessly integrates the history of the N-word with Elizabeth's own story of growing up the Black Jewish daughter of Richard Pryor, Something We Said follows Elizabeth as she becomes a leading scholar and teacher of the very word her father put on the pop culture map.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:37 InkISBN-13:9781982154509ISBN-10:1982154500UPC:9781982154509Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Rich & Famous, Cultural & Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:African American & Black StudiesSize:9.10 x 6.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.454Product ID:SCV78QCSKJ
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor is a professor of history at Smith College where she teaches courses on race, slavery, and her father, comedic legend Richard Pryor. She is the award-winning author of the article "The Etymology of [N-Word]: Resistance, Language, and the Politics of Freedom in the Antebellum North" and the 2016 book Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War. Her viral TED talk on why it's hard to talk about the n-word has been viewed more than two million times.
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