Author Randall Kennedy to Speak Monday at Nebraska Union
Released on 04/16/2004, at 2:00 AM
Office of University Communications
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
WHEN: Monday, Apr. 19, 2004
WHERE: Centennial Room, Nebraska Union, 1400 R Street
Randall Kennedy, author of "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" and "Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption," will appear April 19 at the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St.
Kennedy will read from his work beginning at 6 p.m. in the Centennial Room and will offer time for discussion before the event. He will also sign books after the reading.
A professor at Harvard Law School, Kennedy is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School, was a Rhodes Scholar and served as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for "Race, Crime, and the Law." Kennedy sits on the editorial boards of The Nation, Dissent, and The American Prospect. His work has appeared in Time, the New York Times, Newsweek and in an episode of Fox's "Boston Public."
Kennedy's appearance is sponsored by the University Program Council.
CONTACT: Liz Barnum, University Program Council, (402) 472-8146