Sellout The Politics of Racial Betrayal

Name: Sellout The Politics of Racial Betrayal
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ISBN: 9780307388421

ISBN-10: 0307388425

ISBN-13: 9780307388421

Edition: N/A

Authors: Randall Kennedy

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In the wake of his controversial national best-seller,Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word,Randall Kennedy grapples brilliantly and judiciously with another stigma of our racial discourse: "selling out," or racial betrayal, which is 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 of selling out 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…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/6/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English