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Discrimination & Civil Rights
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The Triumph of Robust Tokenism
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, The Triumph of Robust Tokenism, Atlantic Monthly (Feb. 2001)…
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State of the Debate: White Parents, Black Children
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, State of the Debate: White Parents, Black Children, Am. Prospect, Aug. 12, 2002, at 32 (reviewing J. Douglas Bates, Gift Children: A…
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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…
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Interracial Intimacy
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Interracial Intimacy, Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 2002.
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The N-Word Adjudicated
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, The N-Word Adjudicated, Am. Law., Feb. 2002, at 65.
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Affirmative Reaction
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Affirmative Reaction, Am. Prospect, Feb. 19, 2003, at 9.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Finding a Proper Name to Call Black Americans
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Finding a Proper Name to Call Black Americans, J. Blacks Higher Educ. 46 (2005).
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Randall L. Kennedy, Comments on the Sixth Annual Wiley A. Branton/Howard Law Journal Symposium, 53 How. L.J. 801 (2010).
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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…
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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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Randall L. Kennedy, Facing the Dilemmas of Difference: Comments on the Essay by Mamphela Ramphele, in Promise and Dilemma: Perspectives on Racial Diversity and Higher…
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Omissions in “Patriotic Gore”
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy & Toni Morrison, Omissions in “Patriotic Gore”, in Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections (Lewis M. Dabney ed., 1997).