Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture

In a magnum opus that spans two decades, Harvard Law School professor Randall Ken­nedy, one of our preeminent legal scholars and public intellectuals, gives us twenty-nine provocative essays–some previously published, others written for this occasion–that explore key social justice issues of our time. Informed by sharpness of observation and often courting controversy, deep fellow feeling, decency, and wit, *Say It Loud!* includes: **Shall We Overcome? Optimism and Pessimism in African American Racial Thought Derrick Bell and Me The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril Isabel Wilkerson, the Election of 2020, and Racial Caste The Princeton Ultimatum: Anti­racism Gone Awry How Black Students Brought the Constitution to Campus Race and the Politics of Memorialization The Politics of Black Respectability Why Clar­ence Thomas Ought to Be Ostracized The Politics of Black Respectability Policing Ra­cial Solidarity Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History, and Culture** In each essay, Kennedy is mindful of com­plexity, ambivalence, and paradox, and he is always stirring and enlightening. *Say It Loud!* is a wide-ranging summa of Randall Kennedy’s thought on the realities and imaginaries of race in America.