num_pages: 528
description: 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 ThoughtDerrick Bell and MeThe George Floyd Moment: Promise and PerilIsabel Wilkerson the Election of 2020 and Racial CasteThe Princeton Ultimatum: Antiracism Gone AwryHow Black Students Brought the Constitution to CampusRace and the Politics of MemorializationThe Politics of Black RespectabilityWhy Clarence Thomas Ought to Be OstracizedThe Politics of Black RespectabilityPolicing Racial SolidaritySay It Loud! On Race Law History and CultureIn 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.
language: English
title: Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture
publisher: Pantheon