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Dyson, Michael Eric. author.
Subjects
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 -- Friends and associates.
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 -- Influence.
Smith, Jerome (Freedom Rider), 1949- -- Influence.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
Cocktail parties -- New York (State) -- New York.
African American civil rights workers -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States.
Intercultural communication -- United States -- Case studies.
United States -- Race relations.
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What truth sounds li...
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What truth sounds like :
Robert
F
.
Kennedy
, James Baldwin, and our unfinished conversation about race in America / Michael Eric Dyson.
by
Dyson, Michael Eric. author.
Subjects
Kennedy
,
Robert
F
.,
1925-1968
--
Friends
and
associates
.
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
--
Influence.
Smith, Jerome (Freedom Rider), 1949-
--
Influence.
African Americans
--
Intellectual life.
Cocktail parties
--
New York (State)
--
New York.
African American civil rights workers
--
History
--
20th century.
Civil rights movements
--
United States.
Intercultural communication
--
United States
--
Case studies.
United States
--
Race relations.
Publisher Info:
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.
©2018
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
294 pages ; 21 cm
RDA Types:
text
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9781250199416
1250199417
9781250199423
9781250297044
Contents:
The martyrs
--
The meeting
--
The politicians : whiteness and the state
--
The artists : dangerous intersections
--
The intellectuals : black on black minds
--
The activists 1 : policy and witness
--
The activists 2 : bad niggers
--
After the meeting : resurrection for RFK
--
Even if : Wakanda. Forever.
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Summary:
"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. It was Smith's relentless, unfiltered fury that set
Kennedy
on his heels, reducing him to sullen silence.
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. There was more: every big argument about race that persists to this day got a hearing in that room. Smith declaring that he'd never fight for his country given its racist tendencies, and
Kennedy
being appalled at such lack of patriotism, tracks the disdain for black dissent in our own time. His belief that black folk were ungrateful for the Kennedys' efforts to make things better shows up in our day as the charge that black folk wallow in the politics of ingratitude and victimhood. The contributions of black queer folk to racial progress still cause a stir. BLM has been accused of harboring a covert queer agenda. The immigrant experience, like that of Kennedy--versus the racial experience of Baldwin--is a cudgel to excoriate black folk for lacking hustle and ingenuity. The questioning of whether folk who are interracially partnered can authentically communicate black interests persists."
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