Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions—<i>Plessy v. Ferguson</i> (the so-called «separate but equal» doctrine established in 1896) and <i>Brown v. Board of Education</i> (the public school desegregation decision of 1954)—Baker shows how racial categories change over time.<br...
