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What Truth Sounds Like

- Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
Af: Michael Eric Dyson Engelsk Paperback

What Truth Sounds Like

- Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
Af: Michael Eric Dyson Engelsk Paperback
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A “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.

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A “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.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 304
ISBN-13: 9781250297044
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1250297044
Kategori: Politiske ideologier
Udg. Dato: 17 feb 2025
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 126mm
Højde: 190mm
Forlag: St Martin's Press
Oplagsdato: 17 feb 2025
Forfatter(e): Michael Eric Dyson
Forfatter(e) Michael Eric Dyson

Kategori Politiske ideologier

ISBN-13 9781250297044

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 304

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 126mm

Højde 190mm

Udg. Dato 17 feb 2025

Oplagsdato 17 feb 2025

Forlag St Martin's Press

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