Something we said : Richard Pryor, a notorious word, and me / Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pryor, Elizabeth Stordeur, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pryor, Elizabeth Stordeur--Family.

Pryor, Elizabeth Stordeur.

Pryor, Elizabeth Stordeur--Childhood and youth.

Pryor, Richard, 1940-2005.

Pryor, Richard.

Racism in language--United States.

Racism in language.

English language--United States--Obscene words--History.

English language.

African Americans--Race identity--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African American historians--Biography.

African American historians.

Invective--Political aspects--United States.

Invective.

United States--Race relations--Psychological aspects.

United States.

African Americans--Race identity.

English language--Obscene words.

Genre:

Memoirs.

Informational works.

Physical Description:

viii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First 37 INK/Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Richard Pryor, a notorious word, and me

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : 37 Ink/Simon & Schuster, 2026.

Summary:

"Part memoir by the daughter of the iconic comedian Richard Pryor, part exploration of the historical and contemporary use of the N-word, this hybrid book peels back the curtain on the life of Pryor and interrogates the most perplexing word in the American lexicon, a word he helped popularize. The N-word is one of the most perplexing, controversial and misunderstood words in the American lexicon. It's a word that Elizabeth Pryor has not only contemplated, it's one that she has taught and observed up close. When a white student quoted her father and blurted out the N-word in the middle of a class she was teaching, Professor Pryor's worlds collided. In that moment, she was forced to confront the history of the notorious slur in the United States, and her complicated relationship with her father Richard Pryor, who made the word a trademark of his comedy in the 1970s. As she dives into her research, her own memories of the N-word come flooding back in unprocessed memories that she hadn't thought about for decades. In reckoning with those memories, Elizabeth goes on a more public journey of discovery of the messy and sometimes surprising legacies of racism in the United States. A braided narrative that seamlessly integrates the history of the N-word with Elizabeth's own story of growing up the Black Jewish daughter of Richard Pryor, Something We Said follows Elizabeth as she becomes a leading scholar and teacher of the very word her father put on the pop culture map."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Illustrations on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781982154509

1982154500

OCLC:

1592132503

Publisher Number:

CIPO000383551