Interracial Intimacies
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Interracial Intimacies by Randall Kennedy
In Interracial Intimacies, Randall Kennedy hits a nerve at the center of American society: race relations and our most intimate ties to each other. Writing with the same piercing intelligence he brought to his national bestseller Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Kennedy here challenges us to examine how prejudices and biases still fuel fears and inform our sexual, marital, and family choices.Analyzing the tremendous changes in the history of America s racial dynamics, Kennedy takes us from the injustices of the slave era up to present-day battles over race matching adoption policies, which seek to pair children with adults of the same race. He tackles such subjects as the presence of sex in racial politics, the historic role of legal institutions in policing racial boundaries, and the real and imagined pleasures that have attended interracial intimacy. A bracing, much-needed look at the way we have lived in the past, Interracial Intimacies is also a hopeful book, offering a potent vision of our future as a multiracial democracy.
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375702648 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375702644 |
| Title | Interracial Intimacies |
| Author | Randall Kennedy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2004-01-06 |
| Number of pages | 688 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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