Contents -- 1 Invitation to a Journey -- 2 On Categories -- 3 Categorizing at the Supreme Court: Missouri v. Jenkins and Michael H. v. Gerald D. -- 4 On Narrative -- 5 Narratives at Court: Prigg v. Pennsylvania and Freeman v. Pitts -- 6 On Rhetorics -- 7 The Rhetorics of Death: McCleskey v. Kemp -- 8 On the Dialectic of Culture -- 9 Race, the Court, and America's Dialectic: From Plessy through Brown to Pitts and Jenkins -- 10 Reflections on a Voyage -- Appendix: Analysis of Nouns and Verbs in the Prigg, Pitts, and Brown Opinions -- Notes -- Table of Cases -- Index.