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

In a magnum opus that spans two decades, Harvard Law School professor Randall Ken-nedy, 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:

The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril Isabel Wilkerson, the Election of 2020, and Racial Caste The Princeton Ultimatum: Anti-racism Gone Awry The Constitutional Roots of "Birtherism" Inequality and the Supreme Court "Nigger": The Strange Career Contin-ues Frederick Douglass: Everyone's Hero Remembering Thurgood Marshall Why Clar-ence Thomas Ought to Be Ostracized The Politics of Black Respectability Policing Ra-cial Solidarity

In each essay, Kennedy is mindful of com-plexity, 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.