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The term nigger is used to designate black people or people from any other dark-skinned race and is derived from the term negro or negroid. The term serves as an in-word, i.e. it is a perfectly acceptable slang term when used within the black community, although some Blacks use the word either pejoratively or mockingly. It is however considered so pejorative in the mouths of non-Blacks as to be taboo. The word is not even written in "polite" publications, but the euphemism "N-word" is used instead.
In the United States of America the term was historically common but today African-American is used instead.
Compare: white trash
Books:
- ISBN 0375421726 Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, by Randall Kennedy
- ISBN 0671735608 Nigger: an autobiography, by Dick Gregory