Say it loud! : on race, law, history, and culture

Kennedy, Randall, 1954- author.

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"A gathering of essays by the acclaimed Harvard legal scholar and public intellectual, that explores all the relevant cultural and historical issues of the past quarter century having to do with race and race relations in America. With a gimlet eye, decency and humaneness (and often courting controversy), Randall Kennedy chronicles his reactions over the past quarter century to arguments, events, and people that have compelled him to put pen to p...

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ISBN:

9780593316047

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xiii, 510 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-489) and index

Contents:

Shall we overcome? Optimism and pessimism in African American racial thought
Derrick Bell and me
The George Floyd moment
Isabel Wilkerson, the Election of 2020, and racial caste
The Princeton ultimatum : anti-racism gone awry
How black students brought the Constitution to campus
Race and the politics of memorialization
The politics of black respectability
Policing racial solidarity
Why Clarence Thomas Ought to be ostracized
Say it loud! . . . On racial shame, pride, kinship, and other problems
The struggle for collective naming
The struggle for personal naming
"Nigger" : the strange career continues
Should we admire Nat Turner?
Frederick Douglass : everyone's hero
Anthony Burns and the terrible relevancy of the Fugitive Slave Act
Eric Foner and the unfinished mission of reconstruction
Charles Hamilton Houston : the lawyer as social engineer
Remembering Thurgood Marshall
Isaac Woodard and the education of J. Waities Waring
J. Skelly Wright : up from racism
On cussing out white liberals : The Case of Philip Elman
The Civil Rights Act did make a difference!
Black power hagiography
The Constitutional roots of "birtherism"
Inequality and the Supreme Court
Racial promised lands?

LCCN:

2020055460

Control Number:

3099366

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