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What Truth Sounds Like : Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson (2025, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-101250297044
ISBN-139781250297044
eBay Product ID (ePID)18067065227
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Book TitleWhat Truth Sounds Like : Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
TopicAmerican / African American, Communication Studies, Civil Rights, Public Policy / Social Policy, Political, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
GenreLiterary Criticism, Political Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorMichael Eric Dyson
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight15.9 Oz
Item Length7.5 in
Item Width5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal305.800973
Table Of ContentThe Martyrs The Meeting The Politicians: Whiteness and the State The Artists: Dangerous Intersections The Intellectuals: Black on Black Minds The Activists 1: Policy and Whiteness The Activists 2: Bad Niggers After the Meeting: Resurrection for RFK Even If: Wakanda. Forever
SynopsisA "tour de force" (Harry Belafonte) now finally in paperback An electrifying and traumatic encounter in the sixties crystallized the fraught conflict between conscience and politics - between morality and power - in addressing race. In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, psychologist Kenneth Clark, and a valiant activist, Jerome Smith. Kennedy walked away from the nearly three-hour meeting angry - that the black folk assembled didn't understand politics, and that they weren't as easy to talk to as Martin Luther King. But especially that they were more interested in witness than policy. But Kennedy's anger quickly gave way to empathy, especially for Smith. "I guess if I were in his shoes...I might feel differently about this country." Kennedy set about changing policy - the meeting having transformed his thinking in fundamental ways. Every big argument about race that persists to this day got a hearing in that room. And we grapple still with the responsibility of black intellectuals and artists to bring about social change. This book exists at the tense intersection of the conflict between politics and prophecy - of whether we embrace political resolution or moral redemption to fix our fractured racial landscape., In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf Black America. Baldwin to along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, psychologist Kenneth Clark, and a valiant activist, Jerome Smith. Kennedy walked away from the nearly three-hour meeting angry-that the Black folk assembled didn't understand politics and that they weren't as easy to talk to as Martin Luther King. But especially that they were more interested in witness than policy. Kennedy's anger quickly gave way to empathy, especially for Smith. "I guess if I were in his shoes… I might feel differently about this country." Kennedy set about changing policy-the meeting having transformed his thinking in fundamental ways. Every big argument about race that persists to this day got a hearing in that room. And we grapple still with the responsibility of Black intellectuals and artists to bring about social change. This book exists at the tense intersection of the conflict between politics and prophecy-of whether we embrace political resolution or moral redemption to fix our fractured racial landscape.
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