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DESCRIPTION:Friday, September 20			\nRANDALL KENNEDY\nFOR DISCRIMINATION: Race, 
 Affirmative Action, and the Law\nwith an introduction and moderation by Eva 
 Paterson\n\nIn the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding 
 Fisher v. University of Texas, For Discrimination is at once the definitive 
 reckoning with one of America’s most explosively contentious and divisive 
 issues and a principled work of advocacy for clearly defined justice. \n 
 \nWhat precisely is affirmative action, and why is it fiercely championed 
 by some and just as fiercely denounced by others? Does it signify a boon or 
 a stigma? Or is it simply reverse discrimination? What are its benefits and 
 costs to American society? What are the exact indicia determining who 
 should or should not be accorded affirmative action? When should 
 affirmative action end, if it must? Randall Kennedy gives us a concise, 
 gimlet-eyed, and deeply personal conspectus of the policy, refusing to shy 
 away from the myriad complexities of an issue that continues to bedevil 
 American race relations.\n \nWith pellucid reasoning, Kennedy accounts for 
 the slipperiness of the term “affirmative action” as it has been 
 appropriated by ideologues of every stripe; delves into the complex and 
 surprising legal history of the policy; coolly analyzes key arguments pro 
 and con advanced by the left and right, including the so-called 
 color-blind, race-neutral challenge; critiques the impact of Supreme Court 
 decisions on higher education; and ponders the future of affirmative 
 action.\n\n“Kennedy has long been among the most incisive commentators on 
 race. His books seem to be carved from intellectual granite, yet they have 
 human scale . . . So resonant, so personal.” \n—Dwight Garner, The New 
 York Times\n\n“Kennedy’s commitment to racial justice is plain . . . He 
 frequently throws the cold water of common sense upon issues that are too 
 often cloaked in glib histrionics.”\n—John McWhorter, The New 
 Republic\n\nRandall Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at 
 Harvard Law School. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton and 
 his law degree from Yale. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar 
 and is a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He is the 
 author of six books, including Race, Crime, and the Law, for which he 
 received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, Nigger: The Strange Career of a 
 Troublesome Word ,and, more recently, The Persistence of the Color Line: 
 Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency ("Provocative and richly 
 insightful." —Brent Staples, The New York Times Book Review; 
 "Excellent."—David Remnick, The New Yorker)  . A member of the bars of 
 the Supreme Court of the United States and the District of Columbia, and of 
 the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and 
 Sciences, he lives in Massachusetts.\nEva Paterson is President and 
 Co-Founder of the Equal Justice Society, a national organization dedicated 
 to changing the law through progressive legal theory, public policy and 
 practice. Prior to taking the helm of the Equal Justice Society in 2003, 
 Paterson was the Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil 
 Rights.\n\n\n7:30 PM at the Hillside Club (2286 Cedar Street, 
 Berkeley)\nTickets: $15 general, $8 students; $20 at the door\nBrown Paper 
 Tickets online or 800-838-3006\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/08/18742924.php
SUMMARY:RANDALL KENNEDY / For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
LOCATION:Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley CA 94709
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/08/18742924.php
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