Readings

 Articles

Anzaldúa, Gloria. “La conciencia de la mestiza.” Borderlands: La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Press. 1987. 77-91. 
Caldwell, Paulette. “A Hair Piece: Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Gender”  Critical Race Theory:  The Cutting Edge.  Ed. Richard Delgado.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1995.  267-277.
Cott, Nancy F. “Marriage Revised and Revived.” Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. 200-227.
Cott, Nancy F. “Introduction.” Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation.Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. 1-8.
Cott, Nancy. “Justice for All? Marriage and Deprivation of Citizenship in the United States.”Justice and Injustice in Law and Legal Theory. Ed. Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1998. 77-97.
Cox, Barbara. “‘A Painful Process Of Waiting’: The New York, Washington, New Jersey, and Maryland Dissenting Justices Understand That ‘Same-Sex Marriage’ Is Not What Same-Sex Couples Are Seeking.” 45 California Western Law Law Review 139. Fall 2008.
Crenshaw Willliams, Kimberlé. “Mapping the margins: intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color.”  Critical Race Theory:  The  Key Writings That Formed The Movement.  Eds. Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotana, Gary Peller and Kendall Thomas.  New York:  The New Press, 1995.  357-383.
Delgado, Richard. “Rodrigo’s Sixth Chronicle: Intersections, Essences, and the Dilemma of Social Reform”  Critical Race Theory:  The Cutting Edge.  Ed. Richard Delgado.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1995.  242-252.
Drescher, Jack. “From bisexuality to intersexuality: Rethinking gender categories.”Contemporary Psychoanalysis 43.2 (2007). 204-228.
Eskridge, William. “The Constitutional Case: Discrimination.” The Case For Same-Sex Marriage. New York: The Free Press, 1996. 153-182.
Eskridge, William. “A History of Same-Sex Marriage.” The Case For Same-Sex Marriage. New York: The Free Press, 1996. 15-50.
Eskridge, William. “Sexual and Gender Variation in American Public Law: From Malignant to Benign to Productive.” 57 UCLA Law Review 1333. June 2010.
Eskridge, William and Nan Hunter. Gender, Law and Sexuality. New York: The Foundation Press, 1997 and 2009.
Ettelbrick, Paula. “Since When Is Marriage A Path To Liberation?” Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con: A Reader. Ed. Andrew Sullivan. New York, NY: Vintage Press, 1997. 118-124

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. “Dueling Dualisms.” Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality.  New York: Basic Books, 2000. 1-16.

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. “The Fives Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough.” The Meaning Of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, and Sexual Orientation. Eds. Karen E. Rosenblum and Toni-Michelle C. Travis. McGraw-Hill, 1995. 68-73.

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "The Five Sexes, Revisited." The Sciences, July/August 2000, 18-23.

Fejes, Fred. “The Strange Media Career of the Homosexual.” Gay Rights and Moral Panic: The Origins of America’s Debate on Homosexuality. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.11-52.

Frum, David. “The Courts, Gay Marriage, and the Popular Will.” Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con: A Reader. Ed. Andrew Sullivan. New York, NY: Vintage Press, 1997. 353-361.

Greenberg, Julie. “When Is A Man a Man, and When is a Woman a Woman?” 52 Florida Law Review 4. September 2000.

Hancock, Ange-Marie. “Intersectionality to the Rescue.” Solidarity Politics for Millennials: A Guide to Ending the Oppression Olympics. 2011. 1-32.

Haney López, Ian F. “The Social Construction of Race.”  Critical Race Theory:The Cutting Edge.  Ed. Richard Delgado.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1995.  191-203.

Haney López, Ian F. “White By Law.”  Critical Race Theory:The Cutting Edge.  Ed. Richard Delgado.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1995.  542-550.

Haney López, Ian F. “Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship.” White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race. New York and London: New York University Press. 1996. 37-47.

Haney López, Ian F. “The Racial Prerequisite Cases.” White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race. New York and London: New York University Press. 1996. 203-208.
Hankivsky, Olena. "INTERSECTIONALITY 101." (2022).

Herek, Gregory M. “On Heterosexual Masculinity: Some Psychological Consequences of the Social Construction of Gender and Sexuality.” Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Male Experiences. Ed. Linda D. Garnets and Douglas C. Kimmel. New York: Columbia University Press. 1993. 316-330.

Koppelman, Andrew. “Why Discrimination Against Lesbians and Gay Men is Sex Discrimination.” 69 New York University Law Review 197, 1994.

Lorber, Judith. “Night to His Day: The Social Construction of Gender.” Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, Seventh Edition. (Ed: Paula S. Rothenberg). New York: Worth. 2007. 54-68.

Mann, Coramae Richey. “Law and its Enforcements against Minorities.” Unequal Justice: A Question of Color. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993. 115-121.

Miller, Neil. “Stonewall and the Birth of Gay and Lesbian Liberation.” Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. 365-387.

Miller, Neil. “The 1970s: The Times of Harvey Milk and Anita Bryant.” Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. 395-421.

Miller, Neil. “The 1980s: The Age of AIDS.” Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. 439-479.

Miller, Neil. “The Clinton Years.” Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. 527-553.

Pascoe, Peggy. “Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of ‘Race’ in Twentieth-Century America.” Journal of American History 83 (June 1996): 44-69.

Pascoe, Peggy. “The Facts of Race in the Courtroom.”  What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 109-130.

Rauch, Jonathan. “For Better or Worse.” Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con: A Reader. Ed. Andrew Sullivan. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1997. 169-181.

Ray, Victor.  "Chapter 2: Structural Racism." On critical race theory : why it matters and why you should care. New York: Random House, 2022. 17-30.

Rich, Adrienne. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality. Ed. Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell and Sharon Thompson. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983. 177-205.
Wideman, Daniel. “Free Papers.” Outside the Law: Narratives on Justice in America. Eds. Susan Richards Shreve and Porter Shreve. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. 173-183.

Books.
Hirshman, Linda. Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution. New York: HarperCollins. 2012.

Films/Videos
Race: The Power of an Illusion (YouTube). Exec. Prod. Larry Adelman. Public Broadcasting Service and California Newsreel, 2003.
Ethnic Notions. Dir. Marlon Riggs. California Newsreel, 1986.
The Celluloid Closet. Dir. Rob  Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Sony Pictures Classics, 1995.
The Case Against 8. Dir. Ben Cotner and Ryan White. Ro*Co Films, 2014.
A Class Apart. Dir. Peter Miller and Carlos Sandoval. PBS Home Video, 2009.

Court Cases

For a list of various state and federal court cases that we will consider during the class, click here.

Here is where you can find a List of the Racial Prerequisite cases.