White Niggers of America
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| Author | Pierre Vallières |
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| Original title | Nègres blancs d'Amérique |
| Translator | Joan Pinkham |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
| Subject(s) | French Canadians, Quebec history, independence movement, social conditions |
| Genre(s) | Autobiography, polemic |
| Publisher | Editions Parti pris(French) Monthly Review Press, and McClelland and Stewart (English) |
| Publication date | 1968 |
| Published in English |
1971 |
| Pages | 542 (French) 278 (English) |
| ISBN | 2890370119 (French) 0771086709 (English) |
White Niggers of America: The Precocious Autobiography of a Quebec "Terrorist" is a work of non-fiction literature written by Pierre Vallières, a leader of the Front de libération du Québec . It was translated by Joan Pinkham from the original 1968 French language edition titled Nègres blancs d'Amérique, autobiographie précoce d'un « terroriste » québécois. The translation was published by McClelland and Stewart in 1971 (ISBN 0-7710-8670-9). The translated title uses the word "nigger" as an accurate translation of the equally offensive French word "nègre".
White Niggers of America chronicles the history of the French colonists of North America, first in the New France colonial empire, and then in British North America. A book about exploitation, author Vallières compares to some extent the plight of these immigrants to that of blacks in the American South, arguing that both groups were forcibly imported to the New World and subsequently exploited by aristocrat capitalists.
Vallières wrote the book while serving a four year prison sentence for manslaughter in the Manhattan House of Detention for Men in New York City. He was later acquitted in a second trial in 1970.
