A note on how to use the 3rd & 4th URLs: 1. Click on the first (active) link, which will open a not found page in your browser. 2. At the URL bar in your browser delete the ending “=“. 3. Copy and paste the second line of the URL from the email to the end of the URL bar in your browser & hit ENTER or RETURN. The desired page should appear. > On Jan 3, 2017, at 9:13 PM, Shelley Fisher Fishkin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > A propos of the thread today, if you haven't seen this segment with David = > Bradley on CBS's 60 Minutes ["Huckleberry Finn and the n-word debate"], wat= > ch it. > > Pasted below are links to the segment on youtube and on CBS. If the links= > don't make it through, just google "David Bradley" "Huckleberry Finn" and = > "n-word" and you'll get there. It is a gem. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DnW9-qee1m9o > > http://www.cbsnews.com/news/huckleberry-finn-and-the-n-word-debate/ > > And if you're interested in hearing more -- and going for a wild ride to bo= > ot -- check out this related essay that David wrote. It won the top prize = > in a global competition for the best essay in 2015 (The Notting Hill Editio= > ns Essay Prize). The first link below is an article about the essay winnin= > g the prize that ran in the Independent (UK) and the essay itself is at the= > second link to the Independent pasted below. It's edgy & hilarious. Pleas= > e buckle your seat belts... > > http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/david-bradley-eulogy-for-nigger-au= > thor-wins-notting-hill-editions-essay-prize-a6686996.html > > http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/eulogy-for-nigger-the= > -provocative-title-that-has-been-printed-verbatim-a6687016.html > > > > all the best, > Shelley > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > Shelley Fisher Fishkin > Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities; Professor of English, and Director= > of American Studies, Stanford University > https://english.stanford.edu/people/shelley<http://english.stanford.edu/peo= > ple/shelley>-fisher-fishkin > Co-Director, Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project, Stanford U= > niversity > Mail: Department of English, Bldg. 460, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford University= > , Stanford, CA 94305-2087' > > > http://www.writingamerica.org/ > <http://www.writingamerica.us/> > > <http://www.writingamerica.us/> > "Writing America is a triumph of scholarship and passion...a book that redr= > aws the literary map of the United States." -- Junot D=EDaz > > https://english.stanford.edu/people/shelley-fisher-fishkin