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by Elizabeth Pryor

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781982154523
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	05/01/2025
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288

About the Author

A Simon & Schuster author.
Elizabeth Pryor is the Associate Professor of History at Smith College and the award-winning author of The Etymology of [N-Word]: Resistance, Language, and the Politics of Freedom in the Antebellum North and a 2016 monograph entitled Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War. Her TED talk on the n-word inspired her memoir There Will Be No Laughing in This House—a meditation on biracial identity and her relationship with her father, comedic icon, Richard Pryor. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and on the Advisory Council for the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic.