Renowned for his well-reasoned approach in tackling sensitive racial issues, Randall Kennedy is one of America’s premier scholars on race and ethnicity.  Called “admirable, courageous, and meticulously fair and honest” (New York Times Book Review), Kennedy joined the faculty at Harvard Law School following positions at the United States Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court where he clerked for Thurgood Marshall. His instant bestseller Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word sparked a firestorm of national debate across the pages of the New York Times, Newsweek, and TIME. His other books include Interracial Intimacies and The Persistence of the Color Line. The interaction of race and legal institutions is Kennedy’s niche. His new book For Discrimination offers a balanced argument in favor of affirmative action.