Sellout by Randall Kennedy
In this incisive and unflinching study, Randall Kennedy, author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, tackles another stigma of America's racial discourse: selling out. He explains the origins of the concept and shows how fear of this label has haunted prominent members of the black community--including, most recently, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Barack Obama. Sellout also contains a rigorously fair case study of America's quintessential racial sellout--Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the book's final section, Kennedy recounts how he himself has dealt with accusations of being a sellout after meeting fierce criticism at Harvard upon the publication of his book, Nigger.Michael R. Kennedy is Randall Kennedy. Harvard Law School's Klein Professor of Law Princeton University awarded him an undergraduate degree, and Yale University awarded him a law degree. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and served as a clerk to Supreme Court Judge Thurgood Marshall. He is the author of six books, including Race, Crime, and the Law, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Prize.
The Kennedy Book Prize is given to the best book published in the United States He lives in Massachusetts and is a member of the Supreme Court of the United States and the District of Columbia bars, as well as the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375425431 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375425438 |
| Title | Sellout |
| Author | Randall Kennedy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2008-01-08 |
| Number of pages | 228 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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