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Discrimination & Civil Rights
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It’s Not Obama, It’s Just the Sixth Year
July 14, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, It’s Not Obama, It’s Just the Sixth Year, TIME (Nov. 7, 2014, 4:18 PM).
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Commentary: Constraint and Freedom in the ‘Age of Obama’
July 14, 2026
Kenneth Mack, Commentary: Constraint and Freedom in the ‘Age of Obama,’ in The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America? 27 (Gregory S. Parks & Matthew…
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Holder, Eric
July 14, 2026
Kenneth Mack, Holder, Eric, in African American National Biography (Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham eds., 2d ed. 2013).
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Kenneth W. Mack, A Black Writer on Individualism, Identity and Indifference in Trump’s America, Wash. Post, Dec. 22, 2019, at B11 (reviewing Clifford Thompson, What…
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Kenneth W. Mack, A Defense of Black Lives Matter from the Activist in the Blue Vest, Wash Post, Nov. 2, 2018, at B07 (reviewing DeRay…
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The Contradictory Conservatism of Clarence Thomas
July 14, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, The Contradictory Conservatism of Clarence Thomas, Wash. Post (Sept. 26, 2019, 10:07 PM)(reviewing Corey Robin, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas (2019)).
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Pauli Murray: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Beloved Radical
July 14, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Pauli Murray: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Beloved Radical, Boston Rev., Feb. 29, 2016 (reviewing Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of…
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Kenneth W. Mack, A Case of Police Brutality That Helped Change Race Relations, Wash. Post, Feb. 3, 2019, at B06 (reviewing Richard Gergel, The Blinding…
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Kenneth W. Mack, Foreword: A Short Biography of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 67 SMU L. Rev. 229 (2014).
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Second Mode Inclusion Claims in the Law Schools
July 14, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Second Mode Inclusion Claims in the Law Schools, 87 Fordham L. Rev. 1005 (2018).
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Kenneth W. Mack, Dissent and Authenticity in the History of American Racial Politics, in Dissenting Voices in American Society: The Role of Judges, Lawyers and…
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Civil Rights History: The Old and the New
July 14, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Civil Rights History: The Old and the New, 126 Harv. L. Rev. F. 258 (2013) (Responding to Risa Goluboff, Lawyers, Law, and…
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Law, Society, Identity and the Making of the Jim Crow South: Travel and Segregation on Tennessee Railroads, 1875-1905
July 14, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Law, Society, Identity and the Making of the Jim Crow South: Travel and Segregation on Tennessee Railroads, 1875-1905, 24 Law & Soc.
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The Role of Law in the Making of Racial Identity: The Case of Harrisburg’s W. Justin Carter
July 14, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, The Role of Law in the Making of Racial Identity: The Case of Harrisburg’s W. Justin Carter, 18 Widener L.J. 1 (2008).
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Kenneth W. Mack, Bringing the Law Back into the History of the Civil Rights Movement, 27 Law & Hist. Rev. 657 (2009).
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Civil Disobedience, State Action, and Lawmaking Outside the Courts: Robert Bell’s Encounter with American Law
July 14, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Civil Disobedience, State Action, and Lawmaking Outside the Courts: Robert Bell’s Encounter with American Law, 39 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 347 (2014).
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The Two Modes of Inclusion
July 14, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, The Two Modes of Inclusion, 129 Harv. L. Rev. F. 290 (2016).
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Kenneth W. Mack, A Social History of Everyday Practice: Sadie T.M. Alexander and the Incorporation of Black Women into the American Legal Profession, 1925-1960, in…
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Kenneth W. Mack, Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer (Harvard Univ. Press 2012).
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Kenneth W. Mack, A Social History of Everyday Practice: Sadie T.M. Alexander and the Incorporation of Black Women into the American Legal Profession, 1925-1960, in…
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Kenneth W. Mack, Law and Mass Politics in the Making of the Civil Rights Lawyer, 1931-1942, 93 J. Am. Hist. 37 (2006).