The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
Praise for Randall KennedySellout “Selloutis brisk and enjoyable, no small feat given the density of its ideas . . . Worth reading for the light it shines on many subtleties of black history.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Thought-provoking . . . [Kennedy offers] illuminating evidence that, despite great marks of progress, race’s stranglehold on the nation’s collective conscious remains as strong as ever.”—The Washington PostNigger"Provocative . . . Engaging and informative."—The New York Times"Kennedy's commitment to racial justice is plain . . . He frequently throws the cold water of common sense upon issues that are too often cloaked in glib histrionics."—The New RepublicRace, Crime, and the Law"Admirable, courageous, and meticulously fair and honest."—The New York Times Book Review"[Kennedy] is doing the smartest work in the area of race."—National Law JournalInterracial Intimacies"As definitive as it is defiant . . . One of the most important books on race in recent memory."—The Columbus Dispatch"We urgently need Kennedy, his courage and convictions . . . For some time [he] has been a member of that small coterie of our most lucid big thinkers about race."—The Washington Post