Race and Law

Professor Park

Spring 2008

 

This class meets from 5 to 6 on Wednesdays. My office hours for this quarter will be from 10 to 12 on Wednesdays in 5050 HSSB. My e-mail address is jswpark@asamst.ucsb.edu.

 

I. The Peculiar Institution

Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856).

 

II. Domestic Dependent Nations

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. 1 (1831).

 

III. The Heathen Chinese

Chae Chan Ping v. United States, 130 U.S. 581 (1889).


IV. Jim Crow

Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896).


V. Whiteness and American Citizenship

Ozawa v. United States, 260 U.S. 178 (1922); and
United States v. Thind, 261 U.S. 204 (1923).


VI. Toward Racial Equality

Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944).


VII. The Civil Rights Movement in American Law

Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).


VIII. Post Civil Rights Cases

San Antonio School District v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 1 (1972).


IX. Members and Non-Members

Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982).


X. Colorblindness

Grutter v. Bollinger, 123 S. Ct. 2325 (2003).
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, 127 S.Ct. 2738 (2007).