Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
09.08.2026
Illustriert von
Jerrimiah Stonecastle
Verlag
Amazon Digital Services LLC - KdpSeitenzahl
270
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,7 cm
Gewicht
331 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798191571300
Three men are dead. An eighty-year-old Black man pulled the trigger. No one disputes what he did. The question that divides America is why.
Elwood Dawkins only wanted to make a quick stop at a convenience store in Elloree, South Carolina.
Then he walked outside.
Three white supremacists drinking beside a pickup truck displaying a Confederate flag block his path. They laugh at the elderly man, tell him to shine their shoes, order him to pick cotton, and call him "boy."
Elwood tries to walk around them.
They won't let him.
Then one of them says the word.
The word Elwood has heard since childhood. The word connected in his memory to segregation, humiliation, fear, and violence. The word generations of Black Americans learned could sometimes be followed by something far worse.
Something inside Elwood snaps.
He reaches for his .38 revolver.
Three shots.
Three dead men.
And the trial of the century begins.
The prosecution calls it murder. The victims were unarmed, Elwood fired three times, and no racial insult-no matter how hateful-can justify taking a human life. Words are protected speech, the State argues, and allowing offensive language to excuse homicide would cross a line the law cannot survive.
The defense makes a far more dangerous argument.
The word was never alone.
They contend that when the N-word was hurled at an eighty-year-old Black man while three younger white supremacists blocked his path beneath a Confederate flag, it carried generations of history with it. For Elwood Dawkins, they argue, the word was not merely an insult.
It was a warning.
As disturbing evidence emerges about the dead men, Elwood's own troubled past is exposed as well. Old arrests, alcohol, financial problems, racial encounters stretching back decades, and memories Elwood believed he had buried are dragged into open court. Outside, protesters descend on Elloree. Inside, twelve jurors discover that race cannot simply be checked at the courtroom door.
Then defense attorney Daniel Mercer does something during closing argument so shocking that the courtroom erupts-and he may sacrifice his career to prove his point.
Can a word become so inseparable from its history that the human mind experiences it as a weapon?
Does understanding why a man killed mean excusing what he did?
And when America's history enters a courtroom, can twelve jurors judge only the crime without also judging the country that helped create the moment?
The N-Word is a provocative crime and courtroom drama about race, free speech, trauma, responsibility, and the enormous weight carried by six letters.
Three men are dead. One man is on trial. But before the verdict is reached, America will be forced to take the witness stand.
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