Robert C. Post is Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.K. Anthony Appiah is Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy at Harvard University.Judith Butler is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.Thomas C. Grey is Professor of Law at Stanford University.Reva B. Siegel is Professor of Law at Yale University.

• Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law/ Robert C. Post 1Stereotypes and the Shaping of Identity/ K. Anthony Appiah 55"Appearances Aside" / Judith Butler 73Cover Blindness / Thomas C. Grey 85Discrimination in the Eyes of the Law: How "Color Blindness" Discourse Disrupts and Rationalizes Social Stratification / Reva B. Siegel 99Response to Commentators / Robert C. Post 153Contributors 165Index 167

“Post is one of the most sophisticated members of the legal academy, and, not surprisingly, he offers here an illuminating contrast between certain conventional, ‘formal’ approaches to analyzing ‘discrimination’ and a far more contextual, sociologically nuanced understanding of social practices.”-Sanford Levinson, author of Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking: Cases and Materials “Robert Post has established himself as among the most original thinkers in American constitutional law. Restoring social context to legal formalism, he makes an astute, humane, and compelling case for the central role of the law in shaping the meanings of race and gender.”-Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Robert C. Post is Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.K. Anthony Appiah is Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy at Harvard University.Judith Butler is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.Thomas C. Grey is Professor of Law at Stanford University.Reva B. Siegel is Professor of Law at Yale University.

• Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law/ Robert C. Post 1Stereotypes and the Shaping of Identity/ K. Anthony Appiah 55"Appearances Aside" / Judith Butler 73Cover Blindness / Thomas C. Grey 85Discrimination in the Eyes of the Law: How "Color Blindness" Discourse Disrupts and Rationalizes Social Stratification / Reva B. Siegel 99Response to Commentators / Robert C. Post 153Contributors 165Index 167

“Post is one of the most sophisticated members of the legal academy, and, not surprisingly, he offers here an illuminating contrast between certain conventional, ‘formal’ approaches to analyzing ‘discrimination’ and a far more contextual, sociologically nuanced understanding of social practices.”-Sanford Levinson, author of Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking: Cases and Materials “Robert Post has established himself as among the most original thinkers in American constitutional law. Restoring social context to legal formalism, he makes an astute, humane, and compelling case for the central role of the law in shaping the meanings of race and gender.”-Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Robert C. Post is Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.K. Anthony Appiah is Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy at Harvard University.Judith Butler is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.Thomas C. Grey is Professor of Law at Stanford University.Reva B. Siegel is Professor of Law at Yale University.

• Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law/ Robert C. Post 1Stereotypes and the Shaping of Identity/ K. Anthony Appiah 55"Appearances Aside" / Judith Butler 73Cover Blindness / Thomas C. Grey 85Discrimination in the Eyes of the Law: How "Color Blindness" Discourse Disrupts and Rationalizes Social Stratification / Reva B. Siegel 99Response to Commentators / Robert C. Post 153Contributors 165Index 167

“Post is one of the most sophisticated members of the legal academy, and, not surprisingly, he offers here an illuminating contrast between certain conventional, ‘formal’ approaches to analyzing ‘discrimination’ and a far more contextual, sociologically nuanced understanding of social practices.”-Sanford Levinson, author of Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking: Cases and Materials “Robert Post has established himself as among the most original thinkers in American constitutional law. Restoring social context to legal formalism, he makes an astute, humane, and compelling case for the central role of the law in shaping the meanings of race and gender.”-Henry Louis Gates, Jr.