In a magnum opus that spans two decades， Harvard Law School professor Randall Ken­nedy， one of our preeminent legal scholars and public intellectuals， gives us twenty-nine provocative essays--some previously published， others written for this occasion--that explore key social justice issues of our time。



Informed by sharpness of observation and often courting controversy， deep fellow feeling， decency， and wit， Say It Loud！ includes:

The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril - Isabel Wilkerson， the Election of 2020， and Racial Caste - The Princeton Ultimatum: Anti­racism Gone Awry - The Constitutional Roots of "Birtherism" - Inequality and the Supreme Court - "Nigger" The Strange Career Contin­ues - Frederick Douglass: Everyone's Hero - Remembering Thurgood Marshall - Why Clar­ence Thomas Ought to Be Ostracized - The Politics of Black Respectability - Policing Ra­cial Solidarity

In each essay， Kennedy is mindful of com­plexity， ambivalence， and paradox， and he is always stirring and enlightening。 Say It Loud！ is a wide-ranging summa of Randall Kennedy's thought on the realities and imaginaries of race in America。