Redefining Equality

by Devins, Neal; Douglas, Davison M.

• ISBN13: 9780195116649
• ISBN10: 019511664X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

1. The Pursuit of Equality, Davison M. Douglas and Neal Devins


2. Equality and Impasse: Mobilizing Group-Based Perspectives in an Era of Group-Blindness, Kathryn Abrams


3. Civil Rights Reform in Historical Perspective: Regulati

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
Introduction: The Pursuit of Equality	3	(10)
Davison M. Douglas
Neal Devins
Equality and Impasse: Mobilizing Group-Based Perspectives in an Era of Group-Blindness	13	(16)
Kathryn Abrams
Civil Rights Reform in Historical Perspective: Regulating Marital Violence	29	(22)
Reva B. Siegel
The Illusory Distinction between Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Result	51	(14)
David A. Strauss
The Word ``American'' Ends in ``I Can'': The Ambiguous Promise of the American Dream	65	(17)
Jennifer L. Hochschild
Racial Divisions and Judicial Obstructions	82	(21)
Jeremy Rabkin
The Politics of Clientele Capture: Civil Rights Policy and the Reagan Administration	103	(17)
Hugh Davis Graham
The Convergence of Black and White Attitudes on School Desegregation Issues	120	(19)
Christine H. Rossell
Brown Blues: Rethinking the Integrative Ideal	139	(15)
Drew S. Days III
The Social Construction of Brown v. Board of Education: Law Reform and the Reconstructive Paradox	154	(18)
Richard Delgado
Jean Stefancic
The Irrelevant Court: The Supreme Court's Inability to Influence Popular Beliefs about Equality (or Anything Else)	172	(19)
Gerald N. Rosenberg
Can Courts Make a Difference?	191	(14)
Erwin Chemerinsky
The Supreme Court's Pursuit of Equality and Liberty and the Burdens of History	205	(13)
David J. Garrow
The Judicial Role in Equality Decisionmaking	218	(15)
Neal Devins
Index	233