| 摘要 | 第4-6页 |
| abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第9-13页 |
| Introduction | 第13-36页 |
| 1. The Resurgence of American White Nationalism since the 1990s | 第13-22页 |
| 2. The Introduction to Affirmative Action | 第22-27页 |
| 3. Literature Review | 第27-33页 |
| 4. Research Significance | 第33-36页 |
| Chapter One American White Nationalism in Hopwood v. State of Texas (1996) | 第36-52页 |
| 1.1 Conservatism in and beyond the Courts | 第37-39页 |
| 1.1.1 Conservatism in CIR | 第37页 |
| 1.1.2 Conservatism in the Splits between the Two Courts | 第37-38页 |
| 1.1.3 Conservatism in the Government | 第38-39页 |
| 1.2 White Victimhood: Ignoring Wellborn’s Testimony | 第39-43页 |
| 1.2.1 The Law School’s Admissions Policies | 第39-40页 |
| 1.2.2 Wellborn’s Testimony | 第40-41页 |
| 1.2.3 Ignoring Wellborn’s Testimony in the Fifth Circuit | 第41-43页 |
| 1.3 Anti-multiculturalism & Anti-multiracialism: Denying the Diversity Rationale of Bakke | 第43-47页 |
| 1.3.1 Bakke | 第43-44页 |
| 1.3.2 Denying the Diversity Rationale of Bakke in the Fifth Circuit | 第44-46页 |
| 1.3.3 The Public’ Widespread Embrace of the Diversity Rationale in the Aftermath of Hopwood | 第46-47页 |
| 1.4 Racism: The Law School as the Relevant Alleged Past Discriminator? | 第47-52页 |
| 1.4.1 Racist Ideas Permeating in American Courts and Judges | 第47页 |
| 1.4.2 The Fifth Circuit: The Law School not being the Relevant Alleged Past Discriminator | 第47-49页 |
| 1.4.3 The Respondents’ Refutations against the Circuit Court’s Reasoning | 第49-52页 |
| Chapter Two American White Nationalism in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) | 第52-86页 |
| 2.1 Conservatism in the Final 4-3 Decision | 第53-57页 |
| 2.1.1 CIR: A Conservative Interpretation of Liberty and Democracy | 第53-54页 |
| 2.1.2 O’Connor’ Conservative Swing Vote | 第54-55页 |
| 2.1.3 The Conservative Mood in the Dissenting Opinions | 第55-57页 |
| 2.2 Anti-multiculturalism & Anti-multiracialism: Could Diversity Serve as a Compelling State Interest? | 第57-62页 |
| 2.2.1 Anti-multiculturalism & Anti-multiracialism in the District Court | 第57-58页 |
| 2.2.2 Anti-multiculturalism & Anti-multiracialism in the 6th Circuit Court | 第58页 |
| 2.2.3 Anti-multiculturalism & Anti-multiracialism in the Supreme Court | 第58-60页 |
| 2.2.4 The “Appendix” in the Media | 第60-62页 |
| 2.3 White Victimhood: How to be Narrowly Tailored Enough to Use Race? | 第62-74页 |
| 2.3.1 Race Neutral Alternatives | 第62-70页 |
| 2.3.2 The Critical Mass or Disguised Quotas? | 第70-74页 |
| 2.4 Racism: Thomas’s Long Dissenting Opinion | 第74-78页 |
| 2.4.1 The Unconstitutionality of Affirmative Action | 第74-75页 |
| 2.4.2 The Negative Effects of Affirmative Action on both Whites and Blacks | 第75-77页 |
| 2.4.3 The Incapability of Closing the Racial Gap in the “Promised” Limit of 25 Years | 第77-78页 |
| 2.5 Gratz vs. Grutter: A Different Outcome or the Same One? | 第78-86页 |
| 2.5.1 The Reversal of judgment in Gratz and Grutter | 第78-79页 |
| 2.5.2 Why the Reversal: A Quota or a Goal? | 第79-82页 |
| 2.5.3 The Fundamental Question: Could the Supreme Court Shoulder the Responsibility of Abolishing Affirmative Action？ | 第82-83页 |
| 2.5.4 Justices in the 5-4 Decision of Grutter and the 6-3 Decision of Gratz | 第83-86页 |
| Chapter Three American White Nationalism in Fisher v. University of Texas (2013, 2016) | 第86-111页 |
| 3.1 Conservatism：The Supreme Court, the Plaintiffs and the Media | 第87-95页 |
| 3.1.1 The Supreme Court’s Two Grants of Remand | 第87-91页 |
| 3.1.2 Denying the Deference to the University’s Diversity | 第91-92页 |
| 3.1.3 A Pessimistic Prospect in the Media | 第92-95页 |
| 3.2 Anti-multiculturalism & Anti-multiracialism: Before and after the University’s Diversity | 第95-100页 |
| 3.2.1 Before: Is There Really “Isolation” in the University? | 第95-97页 |
| 3.2.2 Before: Has Top 10% Plan Achieved UT’s Diversity? | 第97-99页 |
| 3.2.3 After: How to Determine the University’ Diversity has been Achieved | 第99-100页 |
| 3.3 White Victimhood in the Oral Argument | 第100-107页 |
| 3.3.1 The Paradox of the Definition of Critical Mass | 第100-102页 |
| 3.3.2 A Cunning Contradiction of the Holistic System: Minimal and not Necessary, or Determinative and not Necessary? | 第102-105页 |
| 3.3.3 Race Neutral Alternatives | 第105-107页 |
| 3.4 Racism: Scalia’s Opinion | 第107-111页 |
| 3.4.1 Scalia’s Racist Opinion | 第107-109页 |
| 3.4.2 Reactions to Scalia’s Racist Opinion | 第109页 |
| 3.4.3 Scalia’s Racist Opinion Echoed in the “Silent Majority” | 第109-111页 |
| Conclusion | 第111-114页 |
| Works Cited | 第114-120页 |
