randall kennedy is our guest on booktv. >> caller: hello, doctor kennedy.one involved with discrimination and education, are you aware of anyone looking into the fact that all higher, from what i experienced, higher education, when you are accepted as astute it is not a contractual agreement? you can complete all requirements for a degree. the entire syllabus with a 4.0 average, have paid all your tuition, perhaps with government grants. and they can choose whether they feel like giving you your diploma or not. you may not get your diploma. you have no legal recourse. it was not a contractual agreement. so that students have no anti-discrimination protection for graduation and getting a diploma. therefore, they can't -- >> host: why do you ask that question? >> caller: because it happened to me. i could not go out and get a job in my field. and pay back my government loans. so that all these pop-up -- i would deliver a prominent university in philadelphia for a masters to become a teacher for a second career. and, you know, old white women are not -- >> hos

joining us now on our outdoor set is harvard professor randall kennedy, a frequent guest on booktv andn c-span. his most recent book which came out last year which is talking about, "for discrimination: race, affirmative action, and the law" professor kennedy, has a affirmative action been successful in this country? >> i think it's been very successful over the past several decades. it has helped with the desegregation of american life, particularly in higher education and in employment. and i think that it has done a very good job in a variety of ways. it is help to rectify past injustice. it is help to bring into important discussions, people have been excluded and, therefore, enriched or public debate and our learning in various schools. so i think it has been a success. that's certain what our gym about. >> host: where did you come up with the title? >> guest: it was the last thing that was part of this project. i did not have a working title. the book at to be published. i needed a title. and actually the person who came up with the title was my editor. i had come up with a coupl

randall kennedy of harvard is most recent book is called for discrimination and david rothkopf iran's "foreign policy" magazine will be talking about u.s. foreign policy. full schedule of today's live coverage from miami is available at our website, booktv.org. all they wanted and get updates of behind the scenes photos at booktv. .org twitter handle. you can also join us at facebook.com/booktv. if you're in the area, come on down. c-span bus is here, we are passing a great book bags and some other things. would love to have you come and say hi at the chamber of commerce day here in miami. the sun is shining. it's about 83 degrees. a little breezy but otherwise it's a great day for the street fair that happens here at the miami book fair. opec chapman hall which is at miami-dade college which is where the book fair is held, there's the room that we will be broadcasting live from all day long. the first panel is just about to start. you can see a full room in there. pamela paul will be leading the discussion to new times book review editor, walter mosley is participating. this is live

. >> host: randall kennedy occurred on a tv in depth program. he discussed his entire body of work and we discussed that one as well. if you'd like to watch a three-hour program or parts of it, go to booktv.org. in the upper left-hand function function -- corner is a search function. watch it online at your leisure. peter is then used the dough, california. peter, did i say a right? >> caller: hi, yes. it is california and i'm honored to be speaking with dr. randall kennedy this morning. i just had a question. can you hear me? >> host: go ahead. >> caller: yes, i wanted to ask, do you believe that affirmative action in great measure to leveling the playing field and americans to begin with for african-americans, each of those were turned affirmative action and do you think americans will ever see steep restitution? if not or if so, why? >> guest: in my view, affirmative action is at least in part a type of reparations. i mean, i think there're bunch of reasons and good reasons to support affirmative action. but i think reparations is one of them

randall kennedy is our guest on booktv. >> caller: hello, doctor kennedy.s one involved with discrimination and education, are you aware of anyone looking into the fact that all higher, from what i experienced, higher education, when you are accepted as astute it is not a contractual agreement? you can complete all requirements for a degree. the entire syllabus with a 4.0 average, have paid all your tuition, perhaps with government grants. and they can choose whether they feel like giving you your diploma or not. you may not get your diploma. you have no legal recourse. it was not a contractual agreement. so that students have no anti-discrimination protection for graduation and getting a diploma. therefore, they can't -- >> host: why do you ask that question? >> caller: because it happened to me. i could not go out and get a job in my field. and pay back my government loans. so that all these pop-up -- i would deliver a prominent university in philadelphia for a masters to become a teacher for a second career. and, you know, old white women are not -- >> h

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