- Argues that Mendez as a case that pre-dated CRT literature , embodied the central themes of CRT, making it not on legally significant, but also theoretically and conceptually important to the history of civil rights struggle.
- Mendez influenced school desegregation jurisprudence in California and the Southwest by framing the discussion within two contexts: a) the sifting nature of civil and human rights in the 1940s; b) integrationist educational theory