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  • Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me

    Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me - Hardcover

    Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me - Hardcover

    By Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

About Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor Books

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.