Professor R. Richard Banks is mentioned on Publisher's Weekly for his scholarship on race and the law:

Brian Tart, president and publisher of Dutton, bought world rights to Ralph Richard Banks’s Is Marriage for White People? Banks, a distinguished African-American scholar who teaches about race and the law at Stanford Law School, examines the decline in marriage in the black community and, per Dutton, “offers a provocative and paradoxical solution.” Noah Lukeman at Lukeman Literary handled the deal.