Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal

Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal
ISBN-10
0307377202
ISBN-13
9780307377203
Series
Sellout
Category
Social Science
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2008-01-08
Publisher
Vintage
Author
Randall Kennedy

Description

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.

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