Randall Kennedy

Quick Facts

Full Name	Randall Kennedy
Occupation	University Teacher
Date Of Birth	Sep 10, 1954(1954-09-10)
Age	70
Birthplace	Columbia
Country	United States
Birth City	South Carolina
Horoscope	Virgo

Randall Kennedy Biography

Randall Kennedy is one of the most popular and richest University Teacher who was born on September 10, 1954 in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. Randall LeRoy Kennedy was conceived September 10, 1954 in Columbia, South Carolina. He is the middle child of Henry Kennedy Sr. (a postal worker) and Rachel Kennedy (an elementary school teacher). Henry H. Kennedy, Jr., an ex-United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia, is his older brother. Angela Kennedy, a Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia lawyer, is his younger sister. Kennedy stated that stories of racial oppression were a common topic of conversation in their household. His father frequently spoke of his childhood memories of listening to Thurgood Marshall debate Rice vs. Elmore. This case invalidated the rule that allowed only white voters to vote in South Carolina’s Democratic primary. His parents fled Jim Crow abuses and moved to Washington, D.C. later that decade.

Kennedy was first recognized as a legal-academic scholar after he started to address affirmative action. Kennedy’s 1997 book Race, Crime and the Law was published. It received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award 1998. In the Wilson Quarterly, William A. Galston wrote that “This book…is a brave, honest and forceful intervention into that debate.” In the same article, it was noted that “with restrained passion, they document the myriad ways inwhich our legal system has trampled the principle of fair treatment for African Americans.” Kennedy asserts that African Americans have been victims of the criminal justice system. However, he also points out that blacks have committed “a notable proportion” of the most fearful crimes (robbery and rape, murder, and aggravated assault). Kennedy also points out that black communities have been often neglected in protecting them from crime. Galston and Wasserman stated that black leaders often show more concern for black criminals than their black victims.

In Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption, published in 2003, Kennedy attempts to bring greater understanding to the racial issues that continue to trouble American society. “His premise is based on common sense,” wrote Emily Bernard in Black Issues Book Review. “Until Americans confront racial bias in the most intimate arenas of their lives, we will continue to live with racism and its consequences.” Unlike a number of black intellectuals, Kennedy has supported interracial adoption. “Parenting is a mysterious thing,” he told Lise Funderburg in Essence. “People will learn what they need to learn in order to help their child along. I’m willing to assume that with respect to all parents, including White people who want to adopt Black kids.” Kennedy also explores interracial marriages throughout American history as well as their presence in literature and film. “There is something hopeful in Kennedy’s historical accounts,” noted Bernard. “In spite of the law … some individuals managed to maintain honorable and nuanced relationships with people they were legally forbidden to approach as equals.”

In 1986, Kennedy married Yvedt Matory, a cancer surgeon. They have three children: Henry, Rachel and Thaddeus. Yvedt Matory died on April 15, 2005, of complications arising from melanoma.

Kennedy joined Harvard Law School in 1984 to teach courses on race relations, law, and freedom of expression.

Randall Kennedy Net Worth

Randall Kennedy is one of the richest University Teacher from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Randall Kennedy 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Randall L. Kennedy, born September 10, 1954, is an American law professor at Harvard University in Cambridge. He is the Michael R. Klein professor of law and his research focuses on the intersection between racial conflict in American society and the legal institutions. He is an expert in contracts, freedom to express, race relations law and civil rights legislation.

Kennedy was educated at St. Albans School, Washington, D.C., and Princeton University (A.B. cum laude 1977), Princeton University (A.B. Kennedy was an editor at Yale Law Journal while at Yale. Kennedy was a law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Circuit, 1982-83, and Justice Thurgood Marshall at the United States Supreme Court, 1983-84. In 1983, he was admitted to Washington, D.C.’s bar. He is also a member of the Supreme Court of the United States bar, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Association.

In 2002 more controversy erupted when Kennedy published Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word. “The power of ‘Nigger,'” noted Charles Taylor in Salon, “is that Kennedy writes fully of the word, neither condemning its every use nor fantasizing that it can ever become solely a means of empowerment.” In this slim volume Kennedy explores the history of the controversial word, noting that the meaning varies according to the person using it and the context of its use. “I’m not saying that any particular instance of using the N-word is any more horrifying and menacing than any other such word,” he told Daniel Smith in The Atlantic. “I am saying that from a broad sociological view, the word is associated with more havoc in American society than other racial slurs.”

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