Race & Ethnicity

Randall Kennedy, Saying It Louder, N.Y. Times, July 22, 2018, SR at 1.

Randall Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr.: The Prophet as Healer, Am. Prospect, Apr. 3, 2018, at 1.

Randall Kennedy, State-Enforced Segregation and the Color of Justice, Am. Prospect, July 24, 2017, at 1 (reviewing Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: The Forgotten…

Randall Kennedy, Despair is Not an Option, Am. Prospect, Sept. 20, 2017, at 1.

Randall Kennedy, The Forgotten Origins of the Constitution on Campus, Am. Prospect, Dec. 28, 2017, at 1.

Randall L. Kennedy, For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law (Vintage 2013).

Randall L. Kennedy, Black America’s Promised Land: Why I Am Still a Racial Optimist, Am. Prospect, Nov. 10, 2014.

Randall L. Kennedy, The Civil Rights Act’s Unsung Victory, Harper’s Mag., Jun. 2014.

Randall L. Kennedy, Old Poison, New Battles, Harper’s Mag., Aug. 2015.

Randall L. Kennedy, Lifting As We Climb: A progressive defense of respectability politics, Harper’s Mag., Oct. 2015.

Randall L. Kennedy, A Caricature of Black Reality, Am. Prospect, Nov. 19, 2015 (reviewing Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015)).

Randall L. Kennedy, Judge J. Skelly Wright and the Racial Desegregation of Louisiana, 61 Loy. L. Rev. 57 (2015).

Randall L. Kennedy, Why Obama’s Black Critics are Wrong, CNN.com, Sept. 19, 2011.

Randall L. Kennedy, Introduction, in Blacks at Harvard: A Documentary History of African-American Experience At Harvard and Radcliffe (Werner Sollors, Caldwell Titcomb, Thomas A. Underwood…

Randall Kennedy, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 3, 2000, Book Review, at 8 (reviewing John H. McWhorter, Losing the Race…

Randall L. Kennedy, The Word ‘Minority’ Isn’t Pejorative, Boston Globe, Jan. 8, 2002.

Randall L. Kennedy, Black and White: Interracial intimacy is a great step forward in building multiracial democracy, Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), Jan. 19, 2003.

Randall L. Kennedy, A Hard Lesson on Language, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jan. 19, 2003 at B3.

Randall L. Kennedy, Blacks Reject Cain For Good Reason, CNN.com, Oct. 18, 2011.

Randall L. Kennedy, Review of Howard Smead, Blood Justice: The Lynching of Charles Mack Parker (1986), 4 Harv. BlackLetter J. 70 (1987).

Randall L. Kennedy, Kennedy: Comment on Rowan, 47 Md. L. Rev. 46 (1987).