Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, And The First Amendment

by Mari J Matsuda

Overview

In this book, the authors, all legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory start from the experience of injury from racist hate speech and develop a theory of the first amendment that recognizes such injuries. In their critique of "first amendment orthodoxy", the authors argue that only a history of racism can explain why defamation, invasion of privacy and fraud are exempt from free-speech guarantees but racist verbal assault is not.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429982576
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/08/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Richard Delgado, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Table of Contents

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