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

Maybe someday

36

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

62/100

Critics

10/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Randall Kennedy

Publisher:

Pantheon

Date:

September 7, 2021

A collection of 29 essays by Harvard Law School professor Randall Ken­nedy—some previously published, others written for this occasion—that explore key social justice issues of our time.

What The Reviewers Say

John McWhorter,
New York Times Book Review
This collection of 29 of his essays lends us the fullest portrait yet between two covers of Kennedy’s thought, and just as much of it fits the mold of Black thought traditionally treated as 'authentic' as does not.
Daniel Fryer,
Washington Post
A note of caution for readers familiar with James Brown’s influential song: Despite its title, Say It Loud isn’t a book about Black pride.

Publishers Weekly
A middle path through America’s racial turmoil is mapped in these trenchant essays.

Kirkus
Sometimes contrarian, sometimes controversial, Kennedy’s arguments merit consideration in a riven discourse..