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  • Fighting for Rights

    August 19, 2026

    Randall L. Kennedy, Fighting for Rights, N.Y. Times, Mar. 15, 1992 (Book Review) (reviewing James MacGregor Burns & Stewart Burns’ A People’s Charter: The Pursuit…

  • The Enforcement of Anti-Miscegenation Laws

    August 19, 2026

    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).

  • Martin Luther King’s Constitution: A Legal History of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    August 19, 2026

    Randall L. Kennedy, Martin Luther King’s Constitution: A Legal History of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 98 Yale. L.J. 999 (1989).

  • “Mr. Civil Rights”

    August 19, 2026

    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

    August 19, 2026

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

  • Marching Toward Justice: An Exhibition Review

    August 19, 2026

    Randall L. Kennedy, Marching Toward Justice: An Exhibition Review, 75 New Eng. Q. 129 (2002) (reviewing Long Road to Justice: The African-American Experience in the…

  • Interracial Intimacy

    August 19, 2026

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

  • The N-Word Adjudicated

    August 19, 2026

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

  • Affirmative Reaction

    August 19, 2026

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

  • From Protest to Patronage

    August 19, 2026

    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…

  • The Government’s Civil Rights Man

    August 19, 2026

    Randall L. Kennedy, The Government’s Civil Rights Man, J. Blacks Higher Educ. 44 (Summer 2004) (reviewing Norman I. Silber, With All Deliberate Speed: The Life…

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

    August 19, 2026

    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

    August 19, 2026

    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”

    August 19, 2026

    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

    August 19, 2026

    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

    August 19, 2026

    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

    August 19, 2026

    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

    August 19, 2026

    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

    August 19, 2026

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

  • A Natural Aristocracy?

    August 19, 2026

    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

    August 19, 2026

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