Say it loud! : on race, law, history, and culture / Randall Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Randall, 1954- author.

Contributor:

Charles H. Maxson Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

United States.

Race relations.

United States--Race relations.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xiii, 510 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, 2021.

Summary:

"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 paper. Three beliefs that are sometimes in tension with one another infuse these pages. First, a massive amount of cruel racial injustice continues to beset the United States of America, an ugly reality that has become alarmingly obvious with the ascendancy of Donald J. Trump and the various political, cultural, and social pathologies that he and many of his followers display and reinforce. Second, there is much about which to be inspired when surveying the African American journey from slavery to freedom to engagement in practically every aspect of life in the United States. Third, an openness to complexity, paradox, and irony should attend any serious investigation of human affairs. Kennedy has tried to allow that sensibility ample leeway in the essays, prompting within himself surprise, ambivalence, and, on several occasions, a heartfelt need to express apology for prior oversights and mistaken judgments. Say It Loud! is nothing less than Randall Kennedy's magnum opus"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Shall We Overcome? Optimism and Pessimism in African American Racial Thought

2. Derrick Bell and Me

3. The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril

4. Isabel Wilkerson, the Election of 2020, and Racial Caste

5. The Princeton Ultimatum: Antiracism Gone Awry

6. How Black Students Brought the Constitution to Campus

7. Race and the Politics of Memorialization

8. The Politics of Black Respectability

9. Policing Racial Solidarity

10. Why Clarence Thomas Ought to Be Ostracized

11. Say It Loud! On Racial Shame, Pride, Kinship, and Other Problems

12. The Struggle for Collective Naming

13. The Struggle for Personal Naming

14. "Nigger": The Strange Career Continues

15. Should We Admire Nat Turner?

16. Frederick Douglass: Everyone's Hero

17. Anthony Burns and the Terrible Relevancy of the Fugitive Slave Act

18. Eric Foner and the Unfinished Mission of Reconstruction

19. Charles Hamilton Houston: The Lawyer as Social Engineer

20. Remembering Thurgood Marshall

21. Isaac Woodard and the Education of J. Waties Waring

22. J. Skelly Wright: Up from Racism

23. On Cussing Out White Liberals: The Case of Philip Elman

24. The Civil Rights Act Did Make a Difference!

25. Black Power Hagiography

26. The Constitutional Roots of "Birtherism"

27. Inequality and the Supreme Court

28. Brown as Senior Citizen

29. Racial Promised Lands?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-489) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles H. Maxson Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Kennedy, Randall, 1954- Say it loud!

ISBN:

9780593316047

0593316045

OCLC:

1184682404

Publisher Number:

99988431481