Roy L. Brooks is Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. He is the recipient of five book awards and the author of more than twenty books, including The Racial Glass Ceiling: Subordination in American Law and Culture (2017), Racial Justice in the Age of Obama (2009), and Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations (2004).
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: the framework
Part I. Asians Americans: 1. Matal v. Tam (trademarking racial slurs)
2. Lau v. Nichols (bilingual education)
Part II. African Americans: 3. Brown v. Board of Education (single race schools)
4. Griggs v. Duke Power (employment discrimination)
5. District of Columbia v. Heller (the right to keep and bear arms)
Part III. Women: 6. Roe v. Wade (reproductive rights)
7. United States v. Virginia (single sex colleges)
8. United States v. Morrison (violence against women)
9. Kulko v. Superior Court (child custody or support)
Part IV. Latinx: 10. Hernandez v. Texas (equal protection)
11. San Antonio Indep. Sch. Dist. v. Rodriguez (school financing)
12. Plyler v. Doe (educating undocumented minors)
Part V. Native Americans: 13. Adoptive couple v. baby girl (Indian adoption)
Part VI. LGBTQ: 14. Obergefell v. Hodges (single-sex marriages)
15. Bostock v. Clayton County (employment discrimination)
Part VII. Intersectionality: 16. EEOC v. Catastrophe Mgt. Solutions Co. (Dreadlocks)
17. Kelo v. City of New London (eminent domain)
Part VIII. Outsiders v. Outsiders: 18. SFFA v. Harvard (affirmative action)
Part IX. White males: 19. McDonald v. Santa Fe Trail Trans. Co. (employment discrimination)
20. City of Atlanta v. Rolfe (law enforcement)
Part X. Situational Outsiders: 21. Gideon v. Wainwright (right to counsel)
22. Martin v. City of Boise (the homeless)
23. Citizens United v. FEC (campaign financing)
24. Trump v. Hawaii (Middle East migrants)
Index.
