Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. What I Am Doing Here, and How I Am Doing It

1 Language: The Power We Love to Hate

2 The Neutrality of the Status Quo

3 “Political Correctness” and Hate Speech: The Word as Sword

4 Mad, Bad, and Had: The Anita Hill / Clarence Thomas Narrative(s)

5 Hillary Rodham Clinton: What the Sphinx Thinks

6 Who Framed “O.J.”?

7 Ebonics—It’s Chronic

8 The Story of Ugh

Notes

References

Index

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