In this incisive and unflinching study, Randall Kennedy, author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, tackles another stigma of America's racial discourse: “selling out.” He explains the origins of the concept and shows how fear of this label has haunted prominent members of the black community—including, most recently, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Barack Obama. Sellout also contains a rigorously fair case study of America's quintessential racial “sellout”—Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the book's final section, Kennedy recounts how he himself has dealt with accusations of being a sellout after meeting fierce criticism at Harvard upon the publication of his book, Nigger.
- ISBN10 0375425438
- ISBN13 9780375425431
- Publish Date 8 January 2008 (first published 1 January 2008)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Pantheon Books Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 228
- Language English