Controversies in Equal Protection Cases in America: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation
In: Controversies in American Constitutional Law
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Equal Protection and the Problem of Identity -- PART I EQUALITY AND THE DEAD END OF EQUAL PROTECTION -- 2 Original Sins, Continuing Wrongs: Equality, Democracy, and Supremacy in the U.S. Under Judicial Review -- 3 Equal Protection's Dead End, or the Slave's Undying Claim -- PART II THE FORMULAE FOR STASIS -- 4 Equal Protection as Intentional Blindness -- 5 Judging Opportunity Lost: Race-based Affirmative Action and Equality Jurisprudence After Fisher v. University of Texas -- 6 The Troubled Adolescence of City of Boerne v. Flores -- PART III RACIAL JUSTICE IN EDUCATION -- 7 Racial Liberalism and School Desegregation Jurisprudence: Notes Toward a More Usable Past -- 8 Supreme Court Opinions on Equal Protection in Education and Their Use of Social Science Research -- 9 The State's Compelling Interest in Substantive Equality -- PART IV THE POSSIBILITIES OF EQUAL PROTECTION -- 10 Ball of Con(stitutional)Fusion: The Supreme Court's Evolving Gay Rights Jurisprudence -- 11 Unequal Protection for Sex and Gender Nonconformists -- 12 Bringing Equal Protection Out of the Tax Closet -- PART V PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES -- 13 Equal Protection and the Immigrant: Legislating Our Way Toward Two Americas -- 14 Applying an Equal Protection Methodology to Speech and Religion Cases -- 15 Equal Protection and Environmental Justice: A Matter of Unconscious Injustice? -- PART VI AFTERWORD -- Afterword: From Identity to the Responsive State