Introduction : the pursuit of equality / Davison M. Douglas and Neal Devins
Equality and impasse : mobilizing group-based perspectives in an era of group-blindness / Kathryn Abrams
Civil rights reform in historical perspective : regulating marital violence / Reva B. Siegel
The illusory distinction between equality of opportunity and equality of result / David A. Strauss
The word "American" ends in "I can" : the ambiguous promise of the American dream / Jennifer L. Hochschild
Racial divisions and judicial obstructions / Jeremy Radkin
The politics of clientele capture : civil rights policy and the Reagan administration / Hugh Davis Graham
The convergence of Black and white attitudes on school desegregation issues / Christine H. Rossell
Brown blues : rethinking the integrative ideal / Drew S. Days III - The social construction of Brown vs. Board of Education : law reform and the reconstructive paradox / Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
The irrelevant court : the Supreme Court's inability to influence popular beliefs about equality (or anything else) / Gerald N. Rosenberg
Can courts make a difference? / Erwin Chemerinsky
The Supreme Court's pursuit of equality and liberty and the burdens of history / David J. Garrow
The judicial role in equality decisionmaking / Neal Devins.