1. Introduction: 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: Regulating Marital Violence / Reva B. Siegel -- 4. The Illusory Distinction between Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Result / David A. Strauss -- 5. The Word "American" Ends in "I Can": The Ambiguous Promise of the American Dream / Jennifer L. Hochschild -- 6. Racial Divisions and Judicial Obstructions / Jeremy Rabkin -- 7. The Politics of Clientele Capture: Civil Rights Policy and the Reagan Administration / Hugh Davis Graham -- 8. The Convergence of Black and White Attitudes on School Desegregation Issues / Christine H. Rossell -- 9. Brown Blues: Rethinking the Integrative Ideal / Drew S. Days III.

10. The Social Construction of Brown v. Board of Education: Law Reform and the Reconstructive Paradox / Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic -- 11. The Irrelevant Court: The Supreme Court's Inability to Influence Popular Beliefs about Equality (or Anything Else) / Gerald N. Rosenberg -- 12. Can Courts Make a Difference? / Erwin Chemerinsky -- 13. The Supreme Court's Pursuit of Equality and Liberty and the Burdens of History / David J. Garrow -- 14. The Judicial Role in Equality Decisionmaking / Neal Devins.