RANDALL KENNEDY is the author of six previous books. He is the Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School, where he teaches courses on contracts, criminal law, and the regulation of race relations. He is a memberof the bar of the District of Columbia, of the American Law Institute, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Massachusetts.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • One of Library
Journal’s “Titles to Watch”
“In these trenchant essays, Kennedy updates previously published
pieces that survey hot-button issues and enduring controversies
involving race and the law . . . [A] wide-ranging volume that
stoutly defend[s] his centrist stance on race against excesses of
the right and left . . . In a time of polarized racial politics,
Kennedy’s closely reasoned and humanely argued takes offer an
appealing alternative.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Kennedy observes that “social relations are complex and messy.”
Having lived through several eras, Kennedy calls himself a
“Black/Negro/Colored/African American” man born in the year of
Brown v. Board of Education. Some of the pieces are of a historical
survey nature, [others] the author’s denunciations of “antiracism
gone awry” and small-step racial justice laws that “are attentive
to the pluralism that infuses American practices.”
“Sometimes contrarian, sometimes
controversial, Kennedy’s arguments merit consideration in a riven
discourse.”
—Kirkus Reviews
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