Kennedy is a professor at Harvard Law School and "Sellout," like his book "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word," often reads like a carefully researched legal brief, one that examines both real and fictional black lives to make his argument.
If your ex is being immature, treat your ex like you would treat any troublesome co-worker; read about dealing with annoying colleagues for extra ideas.
But, there's the troublesome record.
Mr and Mrs William Blake were out in the summerhouse reading Paradise Lost in their natural state (freed from the "troublesome disguises" of clothes) when Thomas Butts came to call.
First, the hardware of smartphones poses constraints on usability, such as reading from a small screen, slow download speed, and troublesome input mechanisms [ 7].
There is no pinch-to-zoom function on a mobile device, or enlargement tool on a desktop, which is troublesome when trying to read fashion editorial credits or see design details on a dress.
One is especially hungry for Twain's kind of transformative complexity after reading Randall Kennedy's thorny book, "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" (Pantheon; $22).
A brilliant, insightful, somewhat troubled or troublesome genius — whose reading of people and situations is all but psychic and who never met a rule he/she wouldn't break in a pinch — leads a crew of diverse types in the pursuit of justice.
In his dissent, Chief Justice Rehnquist agreed that the law, read broadly, was constitutionally troublesome but said that a narrower reading was more accurate.
Instead, the original community is characterised as troublesome, the area is described as "troubled" (read: crime-ridden) and the character shift of the wider neighbourhood is seen as restorative.
