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

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Introduction

00:00 • 6min

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What's Good About Race?

05:48 • 3min

3

Should I Feel More Allegiance to Black People?

09:00 • 5min

4

The Idea of Strategic Essentialism

14:05 • 2min

5

Can We Ever Get Rid of Groupishness?

16:01 • 5min

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Is There a Racial Issue in Affirmative Action?

20:41 • 4min

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Can Affirmative Action Have a Bad Side?

24:43 • 3min

8

The Malone Brothers Are White, or Black or Not?

28:07 • 3min

9

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

30:57 • 2min

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Critical Race Theory

32:31 • 2min

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Critical Race Theory

34:24 • 4min

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Minority Scholars Have More Credence Because of Their Racial Identity

38:10 • 4min

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Critical Race Theorists Defend It to the Tenth Degree

41:43 • 2min

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Critical Race Theory Revealed

43:50 • 4min

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Critical Race Theory and the Black Power Movement

48:10 • 3min

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Is Critical Race Theory Gettingtraction?

51:20 • 3min

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Can't There Be More Change?

54:49 • 3min

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The Power of Races in American Life

57:45 • 5min