Jabari Asim

Jabari Asim is an American author, editor, poet and scholar who has written extensively about race, language and culture in America. The N Word is a comprehensive and illuminating examination of the history of one of the most charged and controversial words in the English language, tracing its origins, its evolving usage and its enduring power from the era of slavery through to contemporary culture. Asim combines historical research, cultural analysis and personal reflection to explore how this single word has shaped and reflected American racial attitudes across centuries. He has served as editor-in-chief of The Crisis, the magazine of the NAACP, and has written numerous books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children's literature. His audiobooks and books offer readers a deeply researched and thought-provoking exploration of language, race and American history.