Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
Biography
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor is a professor of history at Smith College, where she teaches courses on race, slavery, and her father, comedic legend Richard Pryor.
She is the award-winning author of the article “The Etymology of [N-Word]: Resistance, Language, and the Politics of Freedom in the Antebellum North” and the 2016 book Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War.
Her viral TED Talk on why it’s hard to talk about the N-word has been viewed more than two million times.
Learn more at Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor’s official website.
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