Randall Kennedy- “Black and White”

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Click here to begin listening. "Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption," is a book written by Randall Kennedy, a Harvard University Law School Professor. He takes an in-depth look at the issue of black and white relationships set against the ever-changing social mores and laws of this country. Fears of interracial relationships, influenced over the centuries by racial biases and fantasies still widely linger in American Society today. Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard University Law School is the author of “Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption,” in which he takes an in depth look at the issue of black and white relationships set against the ever-changing social mores and laws of this country. From pre-civil war to the present, this book explores the historical, sociological, legal and moral issues that continue to feed and complicate those fears. Professor Kennedy and I visited by phone in March 2003 and began by our conversation with his description of what he calls a “pigmentocracy” in the United States. The book Professor Randall Kennedy recommends is “The Biography of Walter White,” by Robert Jankin.

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