Books

Contributing Editor, Screening Justice - The Cinema of Law: Films of Law, Order and Social Justice (2006) (with Rennard Strickland & Teree Foster).

Articles

Judging the Judges - Daytime Television's Integrated Reality Court Bench, in Lawyers on Television: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Michael Asimow ed., 2009) [Full Text]

Multi-Layered Racism: Courts’ Continued Resistance to Colorism Claims, in Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters ( Evelyn Nakano Glenn ed., 2009).

Equality and Sorority during the Decade after Brown, in Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education, (Robinson & Bonnie eds, 2009).

Balancing Competing Individual Constitutional Rights: Raising Some Questions, in Law and Rights: Global Perspectives on Constitutionalism and Governance, (Andrews & Brazilli eds., 2008). [Full Text]

Dangerous Woman: Elizabeth Key's Freedom Suit - Subjecthood and Racialized Identity in Seventeenth Century Colonial Virginia, 41 Akron Law Review 799 (2008). [Full Text]

Trampling Whose Rights? Democratic Majority Rule and Racial Minorities: A Response to Chin and Wagner, 43 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 127 (2008). [Full Text]

To Kill a Mocking Bird: Lawyering in an Unjust Society, in Screening Justice - The Cinema of Law: Films of Law, Order and Social Justice (Strickland, et al., eds. 2006) []

Unreconstructed Mestizaje and the Mexican Mestizo Self: No Hay Sangre Negra, So There is No Blackness, 15 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 199 (2006). [Full Text]

Lawrence Summers at the NBER Conference: The Real Deal, 11 Cardozo Women's Law Journal 501 (2005). [Full Text]

Brown at 50: Reconstructing Brown’s Promise, 44 Washburn Law Journal 31 (2005). [Full Text]

Setting the Record Straight: Maryland's First Black Women Law Graduates, 63 Maryland Law Review 752 (2004). [Full Text]

Exploring White Resistance to Racial Reconciliation in the United States, 55 Rutgers Law Review 903 (2003). [Full Text]

Two “Colored” Women's Conversation About the Relevance of Feminist Law Journals in the Twenty-First Century, 12 Columbia Journal Of Gender And Law 498 (2003) (with Penelope Andrews). [Full Text]

Both Edges of the Margin: Blacks and Asians in Mississippi Masala, Barriers to Coalition Building, 5 Asian Law Journal 7 (1998), reprinted in The Conflict and Culture Reader (Pat K. Chew, ed. 2001) and in Law Through Asian American Eyes: A Critical Inquiry For Multi-Racial American,. (Eric Yamamoto, et al., eds. 2002). [Full Text]

Toward A Global Critical Feminist Vision: Domestic Work and The Nanny Tax Debate, 3 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 1 (1999), reprinted in Critical Race Feminism: A Reader (Adrien Wing, ed., 2d ed. 2002), and in Beyond Essentialism: A Reader At The Intersections Of Race, Class And Gender (Nancy Dowd & Michelle Jacobs, eds. 2002). [Full Text]

Colorism: A Darker Shade of Pale, 47 U.C.L.A. Law Review 1705 (2000), reprinted in Mixed Race America: A Critical Reader (Kevin R. Johnson, ed. 2002). [Full Text]

The Black Side Of The Mirror: Black Women’s Physical Images And Workplace Discrimination, in Sister Circle: Black Women Represent Work (Sharon Harley, ed. 2002). [Full Text]

What is A Community? Group Rights and the Constitution: The Special Case of African Americans, 1 MARGINS 51 (2001). [Full Text]

Contested Terrains of Compensation: Equality, Affirmative Action, and Diversity in the United States, 15 Law In Context 110 (1998). [Full Text]

Two Stories: Reflections of One Black Woman Law Professor, 6 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 46 (1990-91), reprinted in Critical Race Theory: Key Writings That Formed the Movement (Kimberle Crenshaw, et al., eds. 1996) and in Critical Race Feminism: Readings on Race, Gender and Law, (Adrien Wing, ed. 1997).

Toilets As Feminist Issue, 6 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 263 (1990-91), reprinted in Gender and American Law (Karen Maschke, ed. 1997). [Full Text]

Legal Challenges: State Intervention, Reproduction and HIV-Infected Women, in HIV, AIDS and Childbearing: Public Policy, Private Lives 143 (Ruth R. Faden & Nancy E. Kass, eds. 1996). [Full Text]

The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Reproductive Rights of HIV-Infected Women, 3 Texas Journal of Women & Law 57 (1994).

Reproduction and Parenting, in Aids Law Today: A New Guide for the Public (Burris et al., eds. 1993). [Full Text]

Teaching Laws With Flaws: Adopting a Pluralistic Approach To Torts, 57 Missouri Law Review 443 (1992), anthologized in Critical Race Theory: Cases, Material and Problems,. (Dorothy A. Brown ed., 2003). [Full Text]

Gender Bias in the Classroom, 14 Southern Illinois Law Journal 527 (1990). [Full Text]

Book Essay, AIDS and Government: A Plan of Action?, 87 Michigan Law Review 1321 (1989). [Full Text]

Women and AIDS: Racism, Sexism and Classism, 17 New York University Review of Law & Social Change 351 (1989-90). [Full Text]

Rush to Judgment: HIV Test Reliability and Screening, 23 Tulsa Law Journal 1 (1987) (with Roger McFadden), reprinted in AIDS: ONE, Legal, Social & Ethical Issues Facing The Insurance Industry (1988).

Gender Bias in the Classroom, 38 Journal of Legal Education 137 (1988). [Full Text]

AIDS and the Right to Health Care, 4 Issues in Law & Medicine 151 (1988). [Full Text]

State Constitutions, Freedom of Expression and Search and Seizure: Prospects for State Court Reincarnation, 17 Publius 13 (1987) (with Sue Davis). [Full Text]

The Right to Medical Treatment, in Aids and the Law (Dalton & Burris, eds.1987). [Full Text]

The Scope of Section 1985(3) in Light of Great American Federal Savings and Loan Association v. Novotny: Too Little Too Late?, 9 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 579 (1982). [Full Text]

Discretionary Decision-Making In The Criminal Justice System: Some Alternatives, 5 Black Law Journal (1976).