Sellout : the politics of racial betrayal / Randall Kennedy.
2008
E185.615 .K377 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Sellout : the politics of racial betrayal / Randall Kennedy.
Author
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780375425431
0375425438
0375425438
Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2008]
Copyright
©2008
Language
English
Description
228 pages ; 20 cm
Call Number
E185.615 .K377 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
323.1196/073
Summary
Kennedy grapples with a stigmatized phrase: "selling out," or racial betrayal, a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in Black America. He atomizes the changing meanings of the term and shows how its usage bedevils blacks and whites. He begins his exploration with a historical definition of the "black" community, accounting 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. He outlines the history of the suspicion of racial betrayal among blacks, shows how current fears of selling out are expressed in thought and practice, and offers a case study of the quintessential "sellout"--Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, perhaps the most vilified black public official in American history.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Who is black?
The idea of the "sellout" in Black American history
The idea of the sellout in contemporary Black America
The case of Clarence Thomas
Passing as selling out
Epilogue.
The idea of the "sellout" in Black American history
The idea of the sellout in contemporary Black America
The case of Clarence Thomas
Passing as selling out
Epilogue.