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).