Randall L. Kennedy
Randall L. Kennedy
Michael R. Klein Professor of Law
Bibliography
Books |
| Kennedy, Randall L. Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency (Pantheon 2011). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal (Pantheon Books 2008). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption (Pantheon Books 2003). Full text: AMAZON (Purchase) |
| Kennedy, Randall L. Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (Pantheon Books 2002). Full text: AMAZON (Purchase) |
| Kennedy, Randall L. Race, Crime, and the Law (Pantheon 1997). Full text: AMAZON (Purchase) |
Shorter Works in Collection |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "The Triumph of Robust Tokenism" in Best American Political Writing 2002 (Royce Flippin ed., 2002). (Reprinted from The Atlantic Monthly) |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Preface" in Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921, Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation (Alfred L. Brophy, 2002). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Racial Trends in the Administration of Criminal Justice" in America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences, Volume II (Neil J. Smelser, William Julius Wilson & Faith Mitchell eds., 2001). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Homicide, Race and Capital Punishment" in Philosophical Problems in the Law (David M. Adams ed., Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2000). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Race Relations Law in the Canon of Legal Academia" in Legal Canons (J. M. Balkin & Sanford Levinson eds., New York University Press, 2000). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Struggle for Racial Equality in Public Accommodations" in Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (Bernard Grofman ed., University Press of Virgina, 2000). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Omissions in "Patriotic Gore"" in Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections (Dabney, Lewis M. eds., 1999). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Facing the Dilemmas of Difference: Comments on the Essay by Mamphela Ramphele" in Promise and Dilemma (Lowe, Eugene Y., Jr. eds., 1999). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Cast a Cautious Eye on the Supreme Court" in Covering the Courts :?Free Press, Fair Trials 120 (Robert Giles & Robert W. Snyder eds., Transaction Publishers, 1999). (Originally published in the Media Studies Journal, winter 1998) |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "A Natural Aristocracy?" in Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies (Eskridge, William N., Jr. & Levinson, Sanford eds., 1998). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Supreme Court as Teacher: Lessons from the Second Reconstruction" in The Supreme Court and American Constitutionalism 90 (Bradford P. Wilson & Ken Masugi eds., ?Rowman, 1998). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Reflections on Black Power" in Reassessing the Sixties (Macedo, Stephen eds., 1997). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. ""Dred Scott" and African American Citizenship" in Diversity and Citizenship: Rediscovering American Nationhood (Jacobsohn, Gary Jeffrey & Dunn, Susan eds., 1996). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Comment and Discussion on Hate Crimes/Hate Speech" in Speech and Equality: Do We Really Have to Choose? (LaMarche, Gara eds., 1996). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Reasonable Doubt v. Unreasonable Doubt" in Postmortem: The O.J. Simpson Case (Abramson, Jeffrey eds., 1996). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "The Phony War" in The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America (Fraser, Steven eds., 1995). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "A Comment on "Gibson v. Florida Legislative Committee"" in Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America (Garber, Marjorie & Walkowitz, Rebecca L. eds., 1995). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Race and the Fourteenth Amendment: The Power of Interpretive Choice" in A Less Than Perfect Union: Alternative Perspectives on the U.S. Constitution (Lobel, Jules eds., 1988). |
Articles in a Periodical |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "A Right of All Citizens: why naturalized Americans should be allowed to run for president," The New Republic Online, May 12, 2011. Full text: WWW |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "The Case for Early Retirement: Why Justices Ginsburg and Breyer should retire immediately," The New Republic Online, April 28, 2011. Full text: WWW |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Comments on the Sixth Annual Wiley A. Branton/Howard Law Journal Symposium," 53 Howard Law Journal 801 (2010). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Finding a Proper Name to Call Black Americans," Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Winter 2004/2005, at 46. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Schoolings in Equality: What Brown Did and Did Not Accomplish," The New Republic, July 5/12, 2004 (reviewing Richard Kluger, Simple Justice (2004)). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Schoolings in Equality: What Brown Did and Did Not Accomplish," The New Republic, July 5/12, 2004 (reviewing Michael J. Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights (2004)). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "The Government's Civil Rights Man," Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Summer 2004 (reviewing Norman I. Silber, With All Deliberate Speed: The Life of Philip Elman (2004)). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "From Protest to Patronage," The Nation, September 29, 2003 (reviewing Lost Prophet ). Full text: WWW |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "From Protest to Patronage," The Nation, September 29, 2003 (reviewing Two Crosses ). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Affirmative Reaction," The American Prospect, Spring 2003. Full text: WWW |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "The N-Word Adjudicated," 24 American Lawyer 65 (2002). Full text: WWW (excerpt from Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word) |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Interracial Intimacy," The Atlantic Monthly, December 2002. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Rejection Sustained," The Atlantic Monthly, September 2002. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "State of the Debate: White Parents, Black Children," The American Prospect, August 12, 2002. Full text: WWW |
| Kennedy, Randall L. ""Marching Toward Justice": An Exhibition Review," The New England Quarterly, March 2002. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "The Triumph of Robust Tokenism," Atlantic Monthly, February. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "'Nigger!' as a Problem in the Law (David C. Baum lecture)
?" 2001 University of Illinois Law Review 935 (2001). Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "The Case for Borking," The American Prospect, July 2, 2001. Full text: WWW |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "In Extremis," American Prospect, February 26, 2001, at 14. Full text: WWW |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Racial Passing," 62 Ohio State Law Journal 1145 (2001). Full text: WWW || HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "A Comment on Peter Cicchino's "Defending Humanity"," 9 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law 31 (2001). Full text: WWW || HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Interracial Intimacies," 17 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 59 (2001). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Contempt of Court," American Prospect, January 1-15, 2001, at 15. Full text: WWW |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Marital Color Line," Nation, December 25, 2000, at 8. Full text: WWW |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Outrage on the Court," American Lawyer, February, 2000 (reviewing Contempt of Court (2000)). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Thurgood's Coming," American Prospect, December 1999. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "The Bush Court: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid," American Prospect, November 23, 1999. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Suspect Policy," The New Republic, September 13/20, 1999. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Repeating our Mistakes," The American Lawyer, July 1999. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "The Clerkship Question and the Court," American Lawyer, April 1999. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Mr. Civil Rights," The New Republic, April 5, 1999 (reviewing Juan Williams, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (1999)). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Is He a Soul Man?" The New Republic, March/April 1999. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "The Case Against "Civility"," American Prospect, November/December 1998. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Justice Thomas and Racial Loyalty," American Lawyer, September 1998. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "A Forgettable Memoir," American Lawyer, July/August 1998. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "How Are We Doing With "Loving"?: Race, Law, and Intermarriage," 77 Boston University Law Review 815 (1997). Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "No: drawing racial lines has a toxic effect on society. (Equal Justice: Would Color-Conscious Jury Selection Help?)," 81 ABA Journal 37 (1995). Full text: LEXIS || WESTLAW |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "A Response to Professor Cole's "Paradox of Race and Crime"," 83 Georgetown Law Journal 2573 (1995). Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Tocqueville and Racial Conflict in America: A Comment," 11 Harvard BlackLetter Journal 145 (1994). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "The State, Criminal Law, and Racial Discrimination: A Comment," 107 Harvard Law Review 1255 (1994). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Doing What You Can With What You Have: The Greatness of Justice Marshall," 80 Georgetown Law Journal 2081 (1992). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "The Sixth Annual Brendan Brown Lecutre -- The Political Correctness Scare," 37 Loyola Law Review 231 (1991). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "In Praise of the Struggle for Diversity on Law School Faculties," 6 University of Chicago Legal Forum 1 (1991). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Racial Critiques of Legal Academia," 102 Harvard L.aw Review 1745 (1989). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Martin Luther King's Constitution: A Legal History of the Montgomery Bus Boycott," 98 Yale Law Journal 999 (1989). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Review," 98 Yale Law Journal 521 (1989) (reviewing Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1988 (1989)). |
| Minow, Martha L. & Randall L. Kennedy. "Tribute to Justice Marshall," 24 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 1 (1989). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "McClesky v. Kemp: Race, Capital Punishment, and the Supreme Court," 101 Harvard L.aw Review 1388 (1988). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Afro-American Faith in the Civil Religion: Or, Yes, I Would Sign the Constitution," 29 William and Mary Law Review 163 (1987). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Comment," 47 Maryland Law Review 46 (1987) (reviewing Carl Rowan, Equality as a Constitutional Concept (1987)). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Review," 4 Harvard BlackLetter Journal 70 (1987) (reviewing Howard Smead, Blood Justice: The Lyncing of Charles Mack Parker (1987)). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "A Reply to Philip Elman," 100 Harvard L.aw Review 1938 (1987). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Race Relations Law and the Tradition of Celebration: The Case of Professor Schmidt," 86 Columbia Law Review 1622 (1986). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Persuasion and Distrust: A Comment on the Affirmative Action Debate," 99 Harvard L.aw Review 1327 (1986). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Interest in Judgments Against the Federal Government: The Need for Full Compensation," 91 Yale Law Journal 297 (1982). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Review," 6 Yale Studies in World Public Order 471 (1981) (reviewing John Dugard, Human Rights and the South African Legal Order (1981)). |
Articles in a Newspaper |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Blacks reject Cain for good reason," CNN.com, October 18, 2011. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "The Media Jabs Are Unfair, Kagan Will Fight for Equality on the Court," The Huffington Post, May 12, 2010. Full text: WWW |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "The Man From Pin Point," Washington Post, August 22, 2004, Book World (reviewing Ken Roskett, Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas (2004)). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "A Hard Lesson on Language," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 19, 2003. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Black and White," The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), January 19, 2003. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "We Must Ensure King's Dream Lives On," Times Union (Albany), January 22, 2002. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "The Word 'Minority' Isn't Pejorative," The Boston Globe, January 8, 2002. |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back," Los Angeles Times, September 3, 2000, Book Review (reviewing Losing the Race (2000)). |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Dismantling the Case for Racial Profiling," Newsday Sunday, April 16, 2000, Currents and Books. |
Prefaces or Epilogues |
| Kennedy, Randall L. "Introduction: Blacks and the Race Question at Harvard" to Blacks at Harvard (Sollors, Werner, Titcomb, Caldwell & Underwood, Thomas A. eds., 1993). |
Internet Publications |
| Kennedy, Randall L. Why Obama's Black Critics are Wrong (2011). Full text: WWW |
Works in Progress |
| Kennedy, Randall L. An essay on the history of the term "Uncle Tom" (2002). |