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It can be transferred across races, as Hurston claims it is here, only through racist synecdoche; if characteristics of a "Nigger" include weakness and contemptibility, then another "weak, contemptible person" could be metaphorized as a "Nigger," but the word itself does not lose its racial valence. |
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