Race & Ethnicity

Randall L. Kennedy, How a Dispute Over the N-Word Became a Dispiriting Farce, 65 Chron. Higher Educ., Feb. 8, 2019, at A44.

Randall L. Kennedy, Up in Arms, N.Y. Times, May 30, 2021, at BR15 (reviewing Carol Anderson, THE SECOND Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal…

Randall Kennedy, Has America created a misleading fable about the civil rights movement?, Wash. Post, Feb. 2, 2018. (reviewing Jeanne Theoharis, A More Beautiful and…

Randall Kennedy, Overcoming racism as a black medical student then a working physician, Wash. Post, Sept. 18, 2015.

Randall L. Kennedy, A Black Academic Grapples with His Own Racism, Wash. Post, Aug. 23, 2019 (reviewing Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Anti-Racist…

Randall L. Kennedy, What Harvard was Like for a Black Freshman in 1959, Wash. Post, Mar. 19, 2020 (reviewing Kent Garrett & Jeanne Ellsworth, The…

Randall L. Kennedy, Praising the Life of John Lewis, and Skipping the Complexities, Wash. Post, Aug. 28, 2020 (reviewing Jon Meacham, His Truth is Marching…

Randall L. Kennedy, More Foe Than Friend: The Supreme Court and the Pursuit of Racial Equality, The Nation, Aug. 23, 2021, at 32 (reviewing Orville…

Randall L. Kennedy, The Right-Wing Attack on Racial Justice Talk, 32 Am. Prospect 1 (Oct. 2021).

Randall Kennedy, The Ebb and Flow of Racial Progress, Am. Prospect, Dec. 3, 2020.

Randall Kennedy, Politicians in Robes, The Nation, Oct. 19, 2020, at 41 (reviewing Adan Cohen, Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More…

Randall Kennedy, John Lewis’s Last Journey, Am. Prospect July 27, 2020.

Randall Kennedy, The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril, Am. Prospect, June 19, 2020, at 6.

Randall Kennedy, How Racist Are Universities, Really?, Chron. Higher Educ., Sept. 18, 2020, at 20.

Randall L. Kennedy, Say It Loud!: On Race, History, and Culture (Pantheon 2021).

Randall L. Kennedy & Eugene Volokh, Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond (Aug. 29, 2020).

Randall Kennedy, The Courage to Defy Brutality, 30 Am. Prospect, Spring 2019, at 74 (reviewing Richard Gergel, Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard…

Randall Kennedy, The Journalist and the Murderers, N.Y. Times, Mar. 8, 2020, at BR14 (reviewing Jerry Mitchell, Race Against Time, A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved…

Randall Kennedy, The Apparatchik, The Nation, Oct. 29, 2019, at 35 (reviewing Corey Robin, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas (2019)).

Randall Kennedy, Derrick Bell and Me (Mar. 8, 2019).

Randall Kennedy, The Confounding Truth About Frederick Douglass, Atlantic, Dec. 1, 2018, at 36 (reviewing David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018)).