Parent Categories
Discrimination & Civil Rights
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Reflections on Black Power
July 14, 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?
July 14, 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”
July 14, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy & Toni Morrison, Omissions in “Patriotic Gore”, in Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections (Lewis M. Dabney ed., 1997).
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Race Relations Law in the Canon of Legal Academia
July 14, 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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Struggle for Racial Equality in Public Accommodations
July 14, 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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Homicide, Race and Capital Punishment
July 14, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Homicide, Race and Capital Punishment, in Philosophical Problems in the Law (David M. Adams ed., 3rd ed. 2000).
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Preface
July 14, 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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Racial Trends in the Administration of Criminal Justice
July 14, 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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The Triumph of Robust Tokenism
July 14, 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
July 14, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (Pantheon 2002).
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Race, Crime, and the Law
July 14, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Race, Crime, and the Law (Pantheon 1997).
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Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal
July 14, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal (Pantheon 2008).
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Randall L. Kennedy, Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption (Pantheon 2003).
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Randall L. Kennedy, Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency (Pantheon 2011).
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Who Can Say “Nigger”? … and Other Considerations
July 14, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Who Can Say “Nigger”? … and Other Considerations, 26 J. Blacks Higher Educ. 86 (1999).
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Poverty: A Collective Difficulty, a Collective Challenge
July 14, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Poverty: A Collective Difficulty, a Collective Challenge, 77 Cornell L. Rev. 967 (1992).
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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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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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Randall L. Kennedy, McClesky v. Kemp: Race, Capital Punishment, and the Supreme Court, 101 Harv. L. Rev. 1388 (1988).
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Racial Critiques of Legal Academia
July 14, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Racial Critiques of Legal Academia, 102 Harv. L. Rev. 1745 (1989).