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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kennedy, Randall, 1954- Sellout. New York : Pantheon Books, c2008 (OCoLC)608511142 Online version: Kennedy, Randall, 1954- Sellout. New York : Pantheon Books, c2008 (OCoLC)609316781 |
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| Named Person: | Clarence Thomas |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Randall Kennedy |
| ISBN: | 9780375425431 0375425438 |
| OCLC Number: | 154799735 |
| Description: | 228 p. ; 20 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Randall Kennedy. |
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Abstract:
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.
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