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Discrimination & Civil Rights
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Introduction: The New Black and the Death of the Civil Rights Idea
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack & Guy-Uriel E. Charles, Introduction: The New Black and the Death of the Civil Rights Idea, in The New Black
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Running deeper than race: America’s caste system: Isabel Wilkerson explores what she calls an even more intractable hierarchy
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, Running Deeper than Race: America’s Caste System, Wash. Post, July 31, 2020, (reviewing Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origin of our Discontents (2020)).
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Kenneth W. Mack, James Baldwin Spoke Eloquently to His Era. Does He Also Speak to Ours?, Wash. Post, July 19, 2020, (reviewing Eddie S. Glaude…
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The Court, Race and Brown: Precedents to Suit Each Side
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, The Court, Race and Brown: Precedents to Suit Each Side, Balt. Sun, July 8, 2007, at 2F.
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Which Side is Brown v. Board On?
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, Which Side is Brown v. Board On?, L.A. Times, July 4, 2007, at A21.
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The Supreme Court as a Racially Representative Institution
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, The Supreme Court as a Racially Representative Institution, SCOTUS Blog (Feb. 4, 2010).
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A Measure of History
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, Opinion, A Measure of History (on the Passage of the Affordable Care Act), Bos. Globe, Mar. 25, 2010, at 13.
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The Roots of Clarence Thomas’ Black Burden
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, The Roots of Clarence Thomas’ Black Burden, The Root (Apr. 6, 2012, 12:55 AM).
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Health Care Ruling: Not a Liberal Victory
January 25, 2024
Kenneth Mack, Health Care Ruling: Not a Liberal Victory, The Root (July 7, 2012, 12:53 AM).
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Remembering Civil Rights in 1963, Fifty Years On
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, Remembering Civil Rights in 1963, Fifty Years On, Huffington Post (Jan. 27, 2013, 2:43 PM).
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It’s Not Obama, It’s Just the Sixth Year
January 25, 2024
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’
January 25, 2024
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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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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The Contradictory Conservatism of Clarence Thomas
January 25, 2024
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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A Defense of Black Lives Matter from the Activist in the Blue Vest
January 25, 2024
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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Pauli Murray: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Beloved Radical
January 25, 2024
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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A Case of Police Brutality That Helped Change Race Relations
January 25, 2024
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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Second Mode Inclusion Claims in the Law Schools
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, Second Mode Inclusion Claims in the Law Schools, 87 Fordham L. Rev. 1005 (2018).
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Foreword: A Short Biography of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, Foreword: A Short Biography of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 67 SMU L. Rev. 229 (2014).
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Dissent and Authenticity in the History of American Racial Politics
January 25, 2024
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
January 25, 2024
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…