Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2023-05-24
Books mentioned on #379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
Randall Kennedy is a law professor at Harvard and author of many seminal books on race, law, history, culture, and politics. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Eight Sleep: https://www.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a classic American novel following a young boy's journey down the Mississippi River alongside an escaped slave named Jim, confronting societal morals and racism along the way.
Discussed“Let's imagine and this is not, I'm not imagining things this has happened, that's a teacher is teaching, for instance, the Mark Twain's, "Huckleberry Finn”
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Nigger
Discussed“How does one explain the fact that he wrote several memoirs, but his first memoir is called "Nigger."”
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From slavery to freedom
Discussed“One is the continuing story of racism, which is an awful story; but the other story is encapsulated in the title of a great book of history by John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom.”
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For Discrimination Race Affirmative Action And The Law
Discussed“You wrote a book on the topic, Titled "For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative, Action, and the Law."”
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Race, crime, and the law
Discussed“You wrote a book on the topic, Titled "For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative, Action, and the Law."”
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The Tyranny of Merit
The Tyranny of Merit by Michael J.
Discussed“Of course, there's, I guess, a colleague of yours, Michael Sandel, with 'Tyranny of Merit.'”
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Nigger
“Randall has written a book titled 'Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.'”
“Randall has written a book with this word as the title "N word: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word."”
“The book that you're referring to is "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word."”
Passing Nigger
“The book that you're referring to is 'Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.'”
Own book For Discrimination
“You wrote a book on the topic titled For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law.”