Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture

ISBN: 0593313364

Author: Kennedy, Randall

Condition: New

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A collection of provocative essays exploring the key social justice issues of our time-from George Floyd to antiracism to inequality and the Supreme Court. Kennedy is "among the most incisive American commentators on race" (The New York Times).Informed by sharpness of observation and often courting controversy, deep fellow feeling, decency, and wit, Say It Loud! includes:The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril Isabel Wilkerson, the Election of 2020, and Racial Caste The Princeton Ultimatum: Antiracism Gone Awry The Constitutional Roots of Birtherism Inequality and the Supreme Court Nigger: The Strange Career Continues Frederick Douglass: Everyones Hero Remembering Thurgood Marshall Why Clarence Thomas Ought to Be Ostracized The Politics of Black Respectability Policing Racial SolidarityIn each essay, Kennedy is mindful of complexity, ambivalence, and paradox, and he is always stirring and enlightening. Say It Loud! is a wide-ranging summa of Randall Kennedys thought on the realities and imaginaries of race in America.