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Your Take: Revising ‘Huck Finn’

Conflict & Justice

A new edition of “Huckleberry Finn” will be published without the “n-word.” Is this censorship? Or a necessary move to make the book more teachable in certain schools. It’s a complex issue and Takeaway listeners weighed in on both sides of the argument. Listener, Laura Himmelstein thinks that kids should be able to read the […]

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Huck Finn Mailbag

Global Politics

Huck Finn, Hold the ‘N’

Huck Finn Mailbag

Huck Finn, Hold the ‘N’

Huck Finn Mailbag

On last week’s show Kurt talked to Alan Gribben, the Twain scholar who, in a new edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, replaces all instances of the word “nigger” with “slave”. Their conversation generated a lot of response from listeners, and this week Kurt reads a few of the comments.