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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Pantheon
Price: $22.00
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RANDALL KENNEDY examines Sellout: The Politics of Racial Disloyalty
Harvard Book Store is pleased to host Harvard Law professor RANDALL KENNEDY who in his latest book examines a volatile label in Black America. In the wake of his controversial national bestseller, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Kennedy grapples judiciously with another stigma of our racial discourse: "selling out," or racial betrayal, a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in Black America. He atomizes the vicissitudes of the term and shows how its usage bedevils blacks and whites, while elucidating the effects it has on individuals and on our society as a whole.
Kennedy begins his exploration with a cogent, historical definition of the "black" community, accounting precisely for who is considered black and who is not. He looks at the ways in which prominent members of that community--Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Barack Obama, among others--have been stigmatized as sellouts. Kennedy outlines the history of the suspicion of racial betrayal among blacks, and he shows how current fears of selling out are expressed in thought and practice. He offers a rigorous and bracing case study of the quintessential "sellout"--Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, perhaps the most vilified black public official in American history. And he gives a first-person reckoning of how he himself has dealt with accusations of having sold out at Harvard, especially after the publication of Nigger.
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CONTACT:
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617.661.1515
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617.661.1424 ex.1
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| DATE: |
Tuesday, January 29th |
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7:00 PM |
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Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge |
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This event is free; no tickets are required |
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Randall Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard
University. He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and
the Supreme Court of the United States, a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American
Philosophical Association. His book Race, Crime, and the Law won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
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