Randall L. Kennedy

Tanner Lectures on Human Values: "In Praise of Racial Liberalism: Lecture I: What Does Racial Justice Mean Today?"
Date
Nov 14, 2024, 4:30 pm6:30 pm
Audience
Free and open to the public

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Lecture I: What Does Racial Justice Mean Today?

Randall Kennedy's lectures will posit the ends and means suitable currently for advancing the cause of racial justice in America. Lecture one will focus on aims: what should racial "justice" mean today? 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.

Randall L. Kennedy 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."

Commentators:

Elizabeth Anderson, John Dewey Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan

Elizabeth Hinton, Professor of History, African American Studies & Law, Yale University

Sponsors
  • Department of History
  • Department of Philosophy
  • Department of Politics
  • James Madison Program
  • Program in Law and Normative Thinking
  • Program in Law and Public Policy
  • Princeton Policy Advocacy Clinic
  • Princeton Public Lectures
  • Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
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