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Nigger is an ethnic slur typically directed at black people.

Nigger may also refer to:

Literature

• The Nigger, a 1909 play by Edward Sheldon
• Nigger: An Autobiography by Dick Gregory, a book, 1964
• Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, a book by Randall Kennedy, 2002

Music

• "Nigger, Nigger", and other songs using nigger in their title, by Johnny Rebel in the 1960s
• "Nigger", a 1993 song by Clawfinger
• Untitled Nas album, originally titled Nigger, 2008

Other uses

• Nigger (dog), a black labrador belonging to a British air force officer; both dog and man feature in the film Dambusters
• Nigger butterfly, historic name for Orsotriaena medus

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Nigger
• All pages with titles containing Nigger
• Nigg (disambiguation)
• Niggerhead (disambiguation)
• N-word (disambiguation)
• Niger (disambiguation)
• List of ethnic slurs
• Nigga, a colloquial term derived from nigger
• Nigger in the woodpile, an American figure of speech (late 19th-early 20th centuries)
• The Nigger of the Narcissus, an 1897 novel by Joseph Conrad
• Use of nigger in proper names
• Use of nigger in the arts
• Controversies about the word niggardly