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

First edition.

New York : Pantheon Books, [2021]

©2021.

xiii, 510 pages ; 25 cm.

"A gathering of essays by Harvard legal scholar that explore all the cultural and historical issues of the past quarter century having to do with race and race relations in America. 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. 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"-- Provided by the publisher.

Online version: Kennedy, Randall, 1954- Say it loud! New York, NY : Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021]

English

November 09, 2021

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

Essays.