Description: In the wake of his controversial national bestseller, "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word," Kennedy grapples brilliantly and judiciously with another stigma of racial discourse: "selling out," or racial betrayal, which is a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in Black America.
Review Quotes:
"Sellout is brisk and enjoyable, no small feat given the density of its ideas. . . . Worth reading for the light it shines on many subtleties of black history."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Thought-provoking. . . . [Kennedy offers] illuminating evidence that, despite great marks of progress, race's stranglehold on the nation's collective conscious remains as strong as ever."--The Washington Post
"Fresh. . . . Elegant and open-minded. . . . Sellout does a great deal to complicate the politics of racial betrayal."--Salon.com