Jabari Asim is an associate professor of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College in Boston. He is also the executive editor of The Crisis, the NAACP's flagship journal of politics, ideas and culture. He is the author of children's books like Whose Knees Are These, Whose Toes are Those, and has also written acclaimed works for adults. His writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, Salon.com, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, the New York Times, USA Today and elsewhere. His first work of fiction, A Taste of Honey, was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. So was his latest book, Fifty Cents And A Dream.
This important new book sheds light on questions that have long gone unanswered. . .Every home should have it. --E. Lynn Harris, author of I Say A Little Prayer In The N Word, we just might have the definitive word on the essence of power and subordination in America. --Christopher Benson, coauthor of Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America Jabari Asim persuasively explains why the N word remains a slur and a symbol of inequality. --Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania --