Harvard’s Randall Kennedy: Still Inscrutable

Harvard Magazine has an interesting, laudatory article about Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy, “Black, White, and Many Shades of Gray.” Although Kennedy is indeed impressive and deserves commendation for his insistence on the “variousness” of controversial racial issues, his work has also been characterized by rich veins of inconsistency not mined here.

I attempt to assay some of these inconsistencies — what I call Kennedy’s inscrutability — in two long posts, The Inscrutable Randall Kennedy (March 2003) and Harvard Law’s Randall Kennedy: Still Inscrutable (August 2010), and I encourage you to take a look at them and see if you can figure him out since I obviously haven’t been able to.

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