The Nigger in You: Challenging Dysfunctional Language, Engaging Leadership Moments

Inspiration for the award-winning film How Does It Feel to be a Problem? (2021)

A deeply poignant tapestry of personal stories, scholarship, and poetry, this book asks us to embrace our identity as leaders by engaging those who perpetrate dysfunctional language or behavior, thereby contributing to a world in which differences are respected and validated.

Dr. Wiley borrows the agency of nigger, arguably the quintessential, most universally known term of disparagement of those negatively consid...