The Good Fight

Randall Kennedy on Racism, Critical Race Theory, and the Need for (Chastened) Optimism

Apr 9, 2022

01:06:42

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Critical Race Theory Revealed

04:20

Is Critical Race Theory Gettingtraction?

03:30

Critical Race Theory

03:46

Introduction

6min

What's Good About Race?

3min

Should I Feel More Allegiance to Black People?

5min

The Idea of Strategic Essentialism

2min

Can We Ever Get Rid of Groupishness?

5min

Is There a Racial Issue in Affirmative Action?

4min

Can Affirmative Action Have a Bad Side?

3min

The Malone Brothers Are White, or Black or Not?

3min

I'm Not on Tocheck the Box. I Don't Believe in This Stuff.

2min

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Critical Race Theory

2min

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Critical Race Theory

4min

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Minority Scholars Have More Credence Because of Their Racial Identity

4min

13.

Critical Race Theorists Defend It to the Tenth Degree

2min

14.

Critical Race Theory Revealed

4min

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Critical Race Theory and the Black Power Movement

3min

16.

Is Critical Race Theory Gettingtraction?

3min

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Can't There Be More Change?

3min

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The Power of Races in American Life

5min

Randall Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He has written widely about race and its effect on American society and the law.

In this week’s conversation, Randall Kennedy and Yascha Mounk discuss how racism in American life has changed and the ways in which it hasn’t, why we should move towards a more fluid sense of individual identity, and why he remains optimistic about America.

This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

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