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  • The Enforcement of Anti-Miscegenation Laws

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, The Enforcement of Anti-Miscegenation Laws, in Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law 140 (Werner Sollors ed., 2000).

  • “Mr. Civil Rights”

    January 25, 2024

    Randall Kennedy, “Mr. Civil Rights”, New Republic, Apr. 5, 1999, at 38 (reviewing Juan Williams, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (1998)).

  • The Triumph of Robust Tokenism

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, The Triumph of Robust Tokenism, Atlantic Monthly (Feb. 2001)…

  • Interracial Intimacy

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, Interracial Intimacy, Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 2002.

  • The N-Word Adjudicated

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, The N-Word Adjudicated, Am. Law., Feb. 2002, at 65.

  • Affirmative Reaction

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, Affirmative Reaction, Am. Prospect, Feb. 19, 2003, at 9.

  • From Protest to Patronage

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, From Protest to Patronage, The Nation, Sept. 29, 2003, at 25 (reviewing John D’Emilio, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard…

  • Schoolings in Equality: What Brown Did and Did Not Accomplish

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L Kennedy, Schoolings in Equality: What Brown Did and Did Not Accomplish, New Republic, July 5, 2004, at 29 (reviewing Richard Kluger, Simple Justice…

  • Race and the Fourteenth Amendment: The Power of Interpretive Choice

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, Race and the Fourteenth Amendment: The Power of Interpretive Choice, in A Less Than Perfect Union: Alternative Perspectives on the U.S. Constitution…

  • A Comment on “Gibson v. Florida Legislative Committee”

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, A Comment on Gibson v. Florida Legislative Committee, in Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America (Marjorie Garber & Rebecca…

  • The Phony War

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, The Phony War, in The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America (Steven Fraser ed., 1995).

  • Reasonable v. Unreasonable Doubt

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, Reasonable v. Unreasonable Doubt, in Postmortem: The O.J. Simpson Case: Justice Confronts Race, Domestic Violence, Lawyers, Money, and the Media 33 (Jeffrey…

  • Comment and Discussion on Hate Crimes/Hate Speech

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, Comment and Discussion on Hate Crimes/Hate Speech, in Speech and Equality: Do We Really Have to Choose? (Gara LaMarche ed., 1996).

  • “Dred Scott” and African American Citizenship

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, “Dred Scott” and African American Citizenship, in Diversity and Citizenship: Rediscovering American Nationhood (Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn & Susan Dunn eds., 1996).

  • Reflections on Black Power

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, Reflections on Black Power, in Reassessing the Sixties: Debating the Political and Cultural Legacy (Stephen Macedo eds., 1997).

  • A Natural Aristocracy?

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, A Natural Aristocracy?, in Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies (William N. Eskridge & Sanford V. Levinson eds., 1998).

  • Struggle for Racial Equality in Public Accommodations

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, Struggle for Racial Equality in Public Accommodations, in Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (Bernard Grofman ed., 2000).

  • Race Relations Law in the Canon of Legal Academia

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, Race Relations Law in the Canon of Legal Academia, in Legal Canons (J.M. Balkin & Sanford Levinson eds., N.Y.U. Press 2000).

  • Preface

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, Preface, in Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921, Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation (Alfred L. Brophy, 2002).

  • The Triumph of Robust Tokenism

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, The Triumph of Robust Tokenism, in Best American Political Writing 2002 (Royce Flippin ed., 2002).

  • Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

    January 25, 2024

    Randall L. Kennedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (Pantheon 2002).