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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…
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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).
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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…
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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).
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“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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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Race Relations Law in the Canon of Legal Academia
August 19, 2026
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).
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Racial Trends in the Administration of Criminal Justice
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Racial Trends in the Administration of Criminal Justice, in America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences, vol. II (Neil J. Smelser, William…
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Preface
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Preface, in Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921, Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation (Alfred L. Brophy, 2002).
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The Triumph of Robust Tokenism
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, The Triumph of Robust Tokenism, in Best American Political Writing 2002 (Royce Flippin ed., 2002).
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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (Pantheon 2002).
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Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal (Pantheon 2008).
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Randall L. Kennedy, Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency (Pantheon 2011).
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Randall L. Kennedy, Competing Conceptions of “Racial-Discrimination”: A Response to Cooper and Graglia, 14 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 93 (1991).
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Who Can Say “Nigger”? … and Other Considerations
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Who Can Say “Nigger”? … and Other Considerations, 26 J. Blacks Higher Educ. 86 (1999).
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The David C. Baum Lecture: ‘Nigger!’ as a Problem in the Law
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, The David C. Baum Lecture: ‘Nigger!’ as a Problem in the Law, 2001 Univ. Ill. L. Rev. 935 (2001).
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Racial Critiques of Legal Academia
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Racial Critiques of Legal Academia, 102 Harv. L. Rev. 1745 (1989).
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Conservatives’ Selective Use of Race in the Law
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Conservatives’ Selective Use of Race in the Law, 19 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 719 (1996).
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Ackerman’s Brown
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Ackerman’s Brown, 123 Yale L.J. 3064 (2014).