Description: Examines the origins and development of US Supreme Court policymaking in the area of race between 1801 and 2024.
Brief description: Barbara L. Graham is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is the author of Social Identity and the Law: Race, Sexuality and Intersectionality.
Review Quotes:
"Graham's book is a stunning work of scholarship. Contrary to the view that the Court acts as protector and guardian of individual rights and liberties, Supreme Court Policymaking and Race demonstrates that the Court, overall and excepting the Warren and Burger Courts, has been a single-minded instrument of social oppression of Black and minority individuals and a premier promoter of White supremacy in the United States." -- Isaac Unah, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill