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In a magnum opus that spans two decades, Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy, one of our preeminent legal scholars and public intellectuals, gives us twenty-nine provocative essays--some previously published, others written for this occasion--that explore key social justice issues of our time. Informed by sharpness of observation and often courting controversy, deep fellow feeling, decency, and wit, Say It Loud! includes: Shall We Overcome? Optimism and Pessimism in African American Racial Thought Derrick Bell and Me The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril Isabel Wilkerson, the Election of 2020, and Racial Caste The Princeton Ultimatum: Antiracism Gone Awry How Black Students Brought the Constitution to Campus Race and the Politics of Memorialization The Politics of Black Respectability Why Clarence Thomas Ought to Be Ostracized The Politics of Black Respectability Policing Racial Solidarity Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History, and Culture In 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 Kennedy's thought on the realities and imaginaries of race in America.
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"may not always be exciting reading, Kennedy is the kind of writer who gives you the sense that in the end he's always just plain right ..."
"Sometimes contrarian, sometimes controversial, Kennedy's arguments merit consideration in a riven discourse."
"A central thesis of the book appears to be that the volatility of our race relations calls for seemingly contradictory solutions ..."
"In a time of polarized racial politics, Kennedy's closely reasoned and humanely argued takes offer an appealing alternative."
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