Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Randall L. Kennedy (Harvard Law School): “In Praise of Racial Liberalism: Lecture II-How Can We Achieve It?”

Randall Kennedy’s lectures will posit the ends and means suitable currently for advancing the cause of racial justice in America. Lecture two will focus on strategy: what are optimal ways of proceeding in a polarized polity in which racial prejudices and resentments constitute significant impediments to needed reforms.

Lecture II: How Can We Achieve It?

Randall L. Kennedy (external link) is Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. He attended Princeton University, ’77, and Yale Law School. He clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright and for Justice Thurgood Marshall. A member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the United States Supreme Court, he is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is “Say it Loud! On Race, Law, Culture and History.”