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A 6 page critical analysis of Randall Kennedy’s book Race, Crime, and the Law. Bibliography lists 1 additional source.
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should be tolerated. There is a sense of the politically correct, the sense that Americans are enlightened and righteous and that somehow the racial problems of the past are clearly
behind the nation. However, the past has only blanketed the truth of racial discord and injustice in the nation. Many people like to assume they understand other cultures because they
are intellectual and up to date on the news and society. However, the truth is that there are powerful underlying issues that have never been dealt with, powerful truths that
exist today which indicate that there is no real sense of justice for the African Americans because the past foundations of the nation still exist. Randall Kennedys book Race, Crime,
and the Law offers some profoundly enlightening perspectives on the history of the nation and how there has been, and still is, racial injustice. The following paper presents a critical
analysis of his work. Race, Crime, and the Law by Kennedy One of the most profound statements that Kennedy makes, and
a statement that essentially lays much of the foundation for the work, is as follows: "The white power structure constructs crime in terms of race and race in terms of
crime and thereby creates a racial ideology of crime that sustains continued white domination of blacks in the guise of crime control" (Kennedy, 1998; 27). This statement indicates that there
is a long lived association with whites and the justice system, claiming that African Americans are somehow incredibly different than whites when it comes to legalities and the system of
justice. A bit earlier Kennedy had stated, "the matter of racial discrimination, complaining seriously about it only when racial distinction hurts, or are perceived to hurt, whites" (Kennedy, 1998; 7).
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