Use of nigger in the arts
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This article treats the usage of the word nigger in reference to African Americans and others of African or mixed African and other ethnic origin in the art of Western culture and the English language
1885 illustration from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, captioned "Misto Bradish's nigger"
"How the Leopard Got His Spots"
Negro Kisses (Neekerin Suukkoja in Finnish)
1851 song lyrics
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Nigger is a racial slur directed at Black people. References to nigger have been increasingly replaced by the euphemism "the N-word", notably in cases where nigger is mentioned but not directly used.
Use of nigger in the arts
…This article treats the usage of the word nigger (now widely a racial slur) in reference to African Americans and others of African or mixed African and other ethnic origin in the art of Western culture…
The US edition of Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus" was called The Children of the Sea.
Historical American cartoon titled "Why the nigger is not fit to vote", by Thomas Nast, arguing the reason Democrats objected to African-Americans having the vote was that, in the 1868 US presidential election, African-Americans voted for the Republican candidates Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax. "Seymour friends meet here" in the background is a reference to the Democratic Party candidate: Horatio Seymour.