I recommend your reading his "Race, Crime and the Law." It's masterful, comprehensive and, in places, brave. Also brave and important is his early essay criticizing critical legal studies gurus Derrick Bell et al. (https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Kennedy-Racial-Critiques-of-Legal-Academia.pdf)...
I recommend your reading his "Race, Crime and the Law." It's masterful, comprehensive and, in places, brave. Also brave and important is his early essay criticizing critical legal studies gurus Derrick Bell et al. (https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Kennedy-Racial-Critiques-of-Legal-Academia.pdf)...