Words That Wound - Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment

The authors draw on the experience of injury from racist hate speech to develop a first amendment interpretation that recognizes such injuries, demonstrating how critical race theory can be brought to bear against both conservative and liberal ideology to motivate a regulation of hate speech.

List of contents

1 Introduction, 2 Public Response to Racist Speech: Considering the Victim’s Story, 3 If He Hollers Let Him Go: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus, 4 Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name Calling, 5 Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew, 6 Epilogue: Burning Crosses and the R A . V. Case

About the author

Mari J. Matsuda and Charles R. Lawrence III are professors of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Richard Delgado is Charles Inglis Thomson Professor of Law at the University of Colorado. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw is professor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Summary

The authors draw on the experience of injury from racist hate speech to develop a first amendment interpretation that recognizes such injuries, demonstrating how critical race theory can be brought to bear against both conservative and liberal ideology to motivate a regulation of hate speech.

Product details

• Authors: Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, Richard Delgado, Charles R Lawrence, Charles R Lawrence III, Charles R. Lawrence Iii, Mari J Matsuda, Mari J Lawrence III Matsuda
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.2019
• EAN: 9780367314040
• ISBN: 978-0-367-31404-0
• No. of pages: 171
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law