Browsing HLS Scholarly Articles by Author "Mack, Kenneth"
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Bringing the Law Back into the History of the Civil Rights Movement
Mack, Kenneth W. (Cambridge University Press, 2009)It is a pleasure to comment on Nancy MacLean's hugely important book Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace as an example of what I might call “bringing the law back in” to the history of the civil ... -
Civil disobedience, state action, and lawmaking outside the courts: Robert Bell's encounter with American law
Mack, Kenneth (Wiley, 2014-11)This article uses the well-known case of Robert Bell, who was convicted of trespass in one of the important sit-in cases of the 1960s and ended his career as Chief Justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals, to offer some ... -
Civil Rights History: The Old and the New
Mack, Kenneth (2016-06-16)This paper responds to Risa Goluboff's review of the author's book, Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer, and argues that civil rights history, and legal history more generally, has developed to ... -
Critical Race Theory and Scholarly Analyses of Race in France
Mack, Kenneth (Harvard Law School, 2021-12-13)Abstract: This preface to a special issue on Race and the Law of La Revue des Droits de l'Homme, presents a genealogy of Critical Race Theory, framed in light of the tendency in France to avoid fulsome scholarly discussions ... -
Law and Local Knowledge in the History of the Civil Rights Movement
Mack, Kenneth W. (Harvard Law Review Pub. Association, 2012)Book Review Essay focusing on Tomiko Brown Nagin's Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and The Long History of the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford University Press, 2012), which assesses recent political science-oriented scholarship ... -
Law and Mass Politics in the Making of the Civil Rights Lawyer, 1931-1941
Mack, Kenneth W. (Organization of American Historians -- Oxford Journals, 2006)What was the role of law and lawyers in the civil rights movement? Recent work has emphasized a tension between the legal strategies of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a commitment ... -
Law, Society, Identity and the Making of the Jim Crow South: Travel and Segregation on Tennessee Railroads, 1875-1905
Mack, Kenneth (1999)This article reexamines the well-known debate over the origins of de jure segregation in the American South, which began in 1955 with the publication of C. Vann Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Arguing that the ... -
The Myth of Brown?
Mack, Kenneth W. (Yale Law School, 2005)This Article argues that scholarly accounts of civil rights lawyering and politics have emphasized, incorrectly, a narrative that begins with Plessy v. Ferguson and ends with Brown v. Board of Education. That traditional ... -
The Obama Phenomenon: How Past and Present Resonate
Mack, Kenneth W. (Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 2004) -
Pauli Murray: Eleanor Roosevelt's Beloved Radical
Mack, Kenneth (2016-02-29)During her long and contentious life that spanned much of the twentieth century, Pauli Murray (1910–1985) involved herself in nearly every progressive cause she could find. Yet the contributions of this black woman writer, ... -
The Roots of Clarence Thomas' Black Burden
Mack, Kenneth W. (2012) -
Second Mode Inclusion Claims in the Law Schools
Mack, Kenneth (2018-11-09)This paper assesses the recent proliferation of diversity and inclusion claims in law schools across the United States, often articulated by racial and ethnic minority students. On campus, and in the larger culture, the ... -
A Short Biography of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Mack, Kenneth (2014)This paper reframes the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a particularly open-ended and transformative text, and grounds the statute in a long history of organizing and advocacy that stretches back to the beginning of the twentieth ... -
A Social History of Everyday Practice: Sadie T.M. Alexander and the Incorporation of Black Women into the American Legal Profession, 1925-1960
Mack, Kenneth W. (Cornell Law Review, 2002) -
The Two Modes of Inclusion
Mack, Kenneth (2016-05-10)This paper argues that, as the civil rights movement emerged and began to make its claims for inclusion of African Americans in institutions of higher education, two modes of inclusion emerged — two ideas of what it might ...