Race & Ethnicity

Randall L. Kennedy, Protesting Too Much: The Trouble with Black Power Revisionism, 40 Boston Rev. 38 (2015).

Randall Kennedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word – with a New Introduction by the Author (2022).

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 L. Kennedy, Brown as Senior Citizen, 1 Am. J. L. & Equal. 238 (2021).

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

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 & Eugene Volokh, The New Taboo: Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond, 49 Cap. U. L. Rev. 1 (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, How Racist Are Universities, Really?, Chron. Higher Educ., Sept. 18, 2020, at 20.

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

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

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