This casebook, which is also a reference work, presents up-to-date interdisciplinary, critical perspectives on race and racism and covers the roles of law and history in shaping the meanings of race in the United States.

Updates the third edition with new material on:

  • police violence against African Americans, and the law that makes police accountability so rare
  • Black Lives Matter and mass demonstrations against unwarranted police violence
  • violence against Asian Americans in the wake of the Covid pandemic
  • the Trump presidency and his attacks on immigrants and immigration, including family separation and the movement to build a wall along the southern border
  • the Supreme Court’s continuing attack on voting rights, including the recent Brnovich case
  • extensively updated chapter on Native Americans, including the effects of settler colonial theory on Native history and the recent McGirt case
  • discussion of the conservative attack on Critical Race Theory


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: American Casebook Series
Publication Date: 11/21/2022
Related Subject(s): Civil Rights

Juan F. Perea, Loyola University-Chicago School of Law

Richard Delgado, University of Alabama School of Law

Rose Cuison-Villazor, Rutgers Law School-Newark

Osamudia R. James, University of North Carolina School of Law

Jean Stefancic, University of Alabama School of Law

Stephanie M. Wildman, Santa Clara University School of Law

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Updates the third edition with new material on:

  • police violence against African Americans, and the law that makes police accountability so rare
  • Black Lives Matter and mass demonstrations against unwarranted police violence
  • violence against Asian Americans in the wake of the Covid pandemic
  • the Trump presidency and his attacks on immigrants and immigration, including family separation and the movement to build a wall along the southern border
  • the Supreme Court’s continuing attack on voting rights, including the recent Brnovich case
  • extensively updated chapter on Native Americans, including the effects of settler colonial theory on Native history and the recent McGirt case
  • discussion of the conservative attack on Critical Race Theory

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