ABSTRACT
Understanding the possibilities of nigga authenticity in the emerging realities of transnational capital is a humbling undertaking. From the pulpit to the lectern, from the television news desk to the op-ed pages of the leading papers, the general consensus is “this nigga is deadly dangerous.” It is this nigga who gang-bangs, this nigga who is destroying the fabric of society, who has spread across the country like an infestation, bringing an epidemic of death and despair to black America. All this, on the assumption that this nigga of the present age is somehow related to the “bad nigger” of slavery and the postbellum South, an assumption that remains to be tested.
